The public have an insatiable curiosity to know everything, except what is worth knowing.
OSCAR WILDEThe public have an insatiable curiosity to know everything, except what is worth knowing.
OSCAR WILDEArt is the only serious thing in the world. And the artist is the only person who is never serious.
OSCAR WILDEHe has no enemies, but is intensely disliked by his friends.
OSCAR WILDEYou don’t love someone for their looks, or their clothes, or for their fancy car, but because they sing a song only you can hear.
OSCAR WILDEMan is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.
OSCAR WILDENever love anyone who treats you like you’re ordinary.
OSCAR WILDEA cynic is a man who knows the price of everything, and the value of nothing.
OSCAR WILDEIt is what you read when you don’t have to that determines what you will be when you can’t help it.
OSCAR WILDEHumanity takes itself too seriously. It is the world’s original sin. If the cave-man had known how to laugh, History would have been different.
OSCAR WILDEI have nothing to declare except my genius.
OSCAR WILDEIf you are not long, I will wait for you all my life.
OSCAR WILDEWhenever people agree with me I always feel I must be wrong.
OSCAR WILDEI don’t want to be at the mercy of my emotions. I want to use them, to enjoy them, and to dominate them.
OSCAR WILDEBehind every exquisite thing that existed, there was something tragic.
OSCAR WILDEEvery saint has a past, and every sinner has a future.
OSCAR WILDEAfter a good dinner one can forgive anybody, even one’s own relations.
OSCAR WILDE