Quotes from Oscar Wilde
The world has been made by fools that wise men may live in it.
- Oscar Wilde
Ordinary riches can be stolen; real riches cannot. In your soul are infinitely precious things that cannot be taken from you.
- Oscar Wilde
Anyone who lives within their means suffers from a lack of imagination.
- Oscar Wilde
There is only one class in the community that thinks more about money than the rich, and that is the poor.
- Oscar Wilde
Music is the art... which most completely realizes the artistic idea and is the condition to which all the other arts are constantly aspiring.
- Oscar Wilde
The more one analyses people, the more all reasons for analysis disappear. Sooner or later one comes to that dreadful universal thing called human nature.
- Oscar Wilde
If Nature had been comfortable, mankind would never have invented architecture.
- Oscar Wilde
It is in the brain that the poppy is red, that the apple is odorous, that the skylark sings.
- Oscar Wilde
It is only the superficial qualities that last. Man's deeper nature is soon found out.
- Oscar Wilde
The best way to make children good is to make them happy.
- Oscar Wilde
Ah! happy day they whose hearts can break And peace of pardon win! How else may man make straight his plan And cleanse his soul from Sin? How else but through a broken heart May Lord Christ enter in?
- Oscar Wilde
Ah! Happy they whose hearts can breakAnd peace of pardon win!How else may man make straight his pathAnd cleanse his soul from sin?How else but through a broken heartMay the Lord Christ enter in?
- Oscar Wilde