The Best Oskar Oskar Wilde Quotes

Anything becomes a pleasure if one does it too often

To get back my youth I would do anything in the world, except take exercise, get up early, or be respectable.

The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it. Resist it, and your soul grows sick with longing for the things it has forbidden to itself.

The people who love only once in their lives are really the shallow people.

The smallest act of kindness is worth more than the grandest intention.

Position and wealth are not everything.

When the gods wish to punish us, they answer our prayers.

A bore is someone who deprives you of solitude without providing you with company.

One's past is what one is. It is the only way by which people should be judged.

Our ambition should be to rule ourselves, the true kingdom for each one of us; and true progress is to know more, and be more, and to do more.

Romance lives by repetition, and repetition converts an appetite into an art.

An ethical sympathy in an artist is an unpardonable mannerism of style.

Literature always anticipates life. It doesn't copy it but moulds it to it's purpose.

If one were to live his life fully and completely were to give form to every feeling, expression to every thought, reality to every dream.

Truth, in matters of religion, is simply the opinion that has survived.

The way of paradoxes is the way of truth. To test reality we must see it on the tight rope.

Life is short, art is infinite.

You destroy the thing that you love. It's the other way around. What you love destroys you.

If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all.

To become a work of art is the object of living.