The Best Oskar Oskar Wilde Quotes

When one is in love one begins by deceiving oneself, and one ends by deceiving others. That is what the world calls a romance.

The truth is rarely pure and never simple. Modern life would be very tedious if it were either, and modern literature a complete impossibility!

One should either be a work of art, or wear a work of art.

Ridicule is the tribute paid to the genius by the mediocrities

All art is immortal. For emotion for the sake of emotion is the aim of art, and emotion for the sake of action is the aim of life.

Every one is worthy of love, except him who thinks that he is. Love is a sacrament that should be taken kneeling.

Surely a gentleman has a right to fail if he chooses.

Caricature is the tribute which mediocrity pays to genius.

A man who is master of himself can end a sorrow as easily as he can invent a pleasure.

To give and not expect anything in return, that is what lies at the heart of love.

Never love anybody who treats you like you're ordinary.

Cure the body by means of the senses and the senses with means of the body.

Diversity of opinion about a work of art shows that the work is new, complex, and vital.

Circumstances are the lashes laid on to us by life. Some of us have to receive them with bared ivory backs, and others are permitted to keep on a coat that is the only difference.

The past is what man should not have been. The present is what man ought not to be. The future is what artists are.

Conscience makes egotists of us all.

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

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

Bad artists always admire each others work.

Experience is a question of instinct about life.