Quotes from Oscar Wilde
You seem to forget that I am married, and the one charm of marriage is that it makes a life of deception absolutely necessary for both parties.
- Oscar Wilde
Never met such a Gorgon . . . I don't really know what a Gorgon is like, but I am quite sure that Lady Bracknell is one. In any case, she is a monster, without being a myth, which is rather unfair.
- Oscar Wilde
The basis of action is lack of imagination. It is the last resource of those who know not how to dream.
- Oscar Wilde
All bad poetry springs from genuine feeling. To be natural is to be obvious, and to be obvious is to be inartistic.
- Oscar Wilde
Any place you love is the world to you.
- Oscar Wilde
Ideals are dangerous things. Realities are better. They wound, but they're better.
- Oscar Wilde
To become a spectator of one's own life is to escape the suffering of life.
- Oscar Wilde
Every effect that one produces gives one an enemy. To be popular one must be a mediocrity.
- Oscar Wilde
The great events of the world take place in the brain...
- Oscar Wilde
The only difference between saints and sinners is that every saint has a past while every sinner has a future.
- Oscar Wilde
I don't write this letter to put bitterness into your heart, but to pluck it out of mine. For my own sake I must forgive you.
- Oscar Wilde
I didn't say I liked it Harry. I said it fascinated me. There is a great difference.
- Oscar Wilde