Oscar Wilde Quotes and its meanings

No woman should ever be quite accurate about her age. It looks so calculating.

A work of art is the unique result of a unique temperament.

No great artist ever sees things as they really are. If he did, he would cease to be an artist.

Art is the most intense mode of individualism that the world has known.

Morality is simply the attitude we adopt towards people whom we personally dislike.

There is something terribly morbid in the modern sympathy with pain. One should sympathise with the colour, the beauty, the joy of life. The less said about life's sores the better.

I have the simplest tastes. I am always satisfied with the best.

Laughter is not at all a bad beginning for a friendship, and it is far the best ending for one.

The consciousness of loving and being loved brings a warmth and richness to life that nothing else can bring.

Do you really think it is weakness that yields to temptation? I tell you that there are terrible temptations which it requires strength, strength and courage to yield to.

No great artists ever sees things as they really are. If he did then he would cease to be an artist.

Death and vulgarity are the only two facts in the nineteenth century that one cannot explain away.

One can survive everything, nowadays, except death, and live down everything except a good reputation.

Biography lends to death a new terror.

A dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight, and his punishment is that he sees the dawn before the rest of the world.

Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.

The consciousness of loving and being loved brings a warmth and richness to life that nothing else can bring.

Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes.

Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing.

Ambition is the last refuge of the failure.

Fathers should be neither seen nor heard. That is the only proper basis for family life.

I want my food dead. Not sick, not dying, dead.

Always forgive your enemies - nothing annoys them so much.

The public is wonderfully tolerant. It forgives everything except genius.

Laughter is not at all a bad beginning for a friendship, and it is far the best ending for one.

True friends stab you in the front.

An excellent man he has no enemies and none of his friends like him.

Every saint has a past and every sinner has a future.

I sometimes think that God in creating man somewhat overestimated his ability.

I think that God, in creating man, somewhat overestimated his ability.

One can survive everything, nowadays, except death, and live down everything except a good reputation.

It is better to be beautiful than to be good. But... it is better to be good than to be ugly.

I choose my friends for their good looks, my acquaintances for their good characters, and my enemies for their intellects. A man cannot be too careful in the choice of his enemies.

No great artist ever sees things as they really are. If he did, he would cease to be an artist.

The moment you think you understand a great work of art, it's dead for you.

A little sincerity is a dangerous thing, and a great deal of it is absolutely fatal.

Some cause happiness wherever they go others whenever they go.

This suspense is terrible. I hope it will last.

It is only by not paying one's bills that one can hope to live in the memory of the commercial classes.

I am so clever that sometimes I dont understand a single word of what I am saying.

Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go.

The imagination imitates. It is the critical spirit that creates.

I choose my friends for their good looks, my acquaintances for their good characters, and my enemies for their intellects. A man cannot be too careful in the choice of his enemies.

To expect the unexpected shows a thoroughly modern intellect.

The consciousness of loving and being loved brings a warmth and richness to life that nothing else can bring.

Everybody who is incapable of learning has taken to teaching.

Life imitates art far more than art imitates Life.

There is something terribly morbid in the modern sympathy with pain. One should sympathise with the colour, the beauty, the joy of life. The less said about life's sores the better.

Fathers should be neither seen nor heard. That is the only proper basis for family life.

Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love, but no friendship.

Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead.

To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.

The one charm about marriage is that it makes a life of deception absolutely necessary for both parties.

One should always be in love. That is the reason one should never marry.

How can a woman be expected to be happy with a man who insists on treating her as if she were a perfectly normal human being.

Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love, but no friendship.

Men always want to be a woman's first love - women like to be a man's last romance.

I see when men love women. They give them but a little of their lives. But women when they love give everything.

When I was young I thought that money was the most important thing in life now that I am old I know that it is.

There is only one class in the community that thinks more about money than the rich, and that is the poor. The poor can think of nothing else.

If one plays good music, people don't listen and if one plays bad music people don't talk.

Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.

All bad poetry springs from genuine feeling.

A poet can survive everything but a misprint.

The consciousness of loving and being loved brings a warmth and richness to life that nothing else can bring.

Deceiving others. That is what the world calls a romance.

It is a very sad thing that nowadays there is so little useless information.

Success is a science if you have the conditions, you get the result.

Romance should never begin with sentiment. It should begin with science and end with a settlement.

Arguments are extremely vulgar, for everyone in good society holds exactly the same opinion.

If one could only teach the English how to talk, and the Irish how to listen, society here would be quite civilized.

Society exists only as a mental concept in the real world there are only individuals.

Do you really think it is weakness that yields to temptation? I tell you that there are terrible temptations which it requires strength, strength and courage to yield to.

Success is a science if you have the conditions, you get the result.

There is something terribly morbid in the modern sympathy with pain. One should sympathise with the colour, the beauty, the joy of life. The less said about life's sores the better.

If there was less sympathy in the world, there would be less trouble in the world.

Everybody who is incapable of learning has taken to teaching.

The typewriting machine, when played with expression, is no more annoying than the piano when played by a sister or near relation.

Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.

Children begin by loving their parents after a time they judge them rarely, if ever, do they forgive them.

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

Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.

The truth is rarely pure and never simple.

As long as war is regarded as wicked, it will always have its fascination. When it is looked upon as vulgar, it will cease to be popular.

The consciousness of loving and being loved brings a warmth and richness to life that nothing else can bring.

No great artists ever sees things as they really are. If he did then he would cease to be an artist.

I am so clever that sometimes I dont understand a single word of what I am saying.

Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love, but no friendship.

Men always want to be a woman's first love - women like to be a man's last romance.

I see when men love women. They give them but a little of their lives. But women when they love give everything.

A work of art is the unique result of a unique temperament.

The moment you think you understand a great work of art, it's dead for you.

Work is the curse of the drinking classes.