Oscar Wilde Quotes

Women are made to be loved, not understood.

The mark of all good art is not that the thing done is done exactly or finely, for machinery may do as much, but that it is worked out with the head and the workman’s heart.

The spirit of an age may be best expressed in the abstract ideal arts, for the spirit itself is abstract and ideal.

A pessimist is somebody who complains about the noise when opportunity knocks.

I like persons better than principles, and I like persons with no principles better than anything else in the world.

I never travel without my diary. One should always have something sensational to read in the train.

A gentleman is one who never hurts anyone’s feelings unintentionally.

Alas, I am dying beyond my means.

In married life three is company and two none.

I have never given adoration to any body except myself.

There is always something ridiculous about the emotions of people whom one has ceased to love.

Beauty has as many meanings as man has moods. Beauty is the symbol of symbols. Beauty reveals everything, because it expresses nothing. When it shows us itself, it shows us the whole fiery-coloured world.

This suspense is terrible. I hope it will last.

I would have a workshop attached to every school, and one hour a day given up to the teaching of simple decorative arts. It would be a golden hour to the children.