Oscar Wilde
Irish poet, playwright, and aesthete (1854–1900)
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- All bad poetry springs from genuine feeling.
- 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.
- Life imitates art far more than art imitates Life.
- The typewriting machine, when played with expression, is no more annoying than the piano when played by a sister or near relation.
- Success is a science; if you have the conditions, you get the result.
- Simple pleasures are always the last refuge of the complex
- Comfort is the only thing our civilization can give us.
- Nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.
- I can believe anything, provided that it is quite incredible.
- Religions die when they are proved to be true. Science is the record of dead religions.
- The only thing to do with good advice is to pass it on. It is never of any use to oneself.
- Anybody can make history; only a great man can write it
- What people call insincerity is simply a method by which we can multiply our personalities.
- The books that the world calls immoral are the books that show the world its own shame.
- The only thing worse than being talked about is not being talked about.
- Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing.
- Ridicule is the tribute paid to the genius by the mediocrities.
- Everybody who is incapable of learning has taken to teaching.
- I am the only person in the world I should like to know thoroughly.
- When one is in love, one always begins by deceiving one's self, and one always ends by deceiving others. That is what world calls a romance.
- I dislike arguments of any kind. They are always vulgar, and often convincing.
- I have met a lot of hardboiled eggs in my time, but you're twenty minutes.
- Art is the most intense mode of individualism that the world has known.
- When a love comes to an end, weaklings cry, efficient ones instantly find another love, and the wise already have one in reserve.