Quotes from Oscar Wilde

And with tears of blood he cleansed the hand, The hand that held the steel: For only blood can wipe out blood, And only tears can heal

If one plays good music, people don't listen, and if one plays bad music people don't talk.

I love hearing my relations abused. It is the only thing that makes me put up with them at all. Relations are simply a tedious pack of people, who haven't got the remotest knowledge of how to live nor the smallest instinct about when to die.

I am sick to death of cleverness. Everybody is clever nowadays. You can't go anywhere without meeting clever people. The thing has become an absolute public nuisance. I wish to goodness we had a few fools left. ALGERNON: We have. JACK: I should extremely like to meet them. What do they talk about? ALGERNON: The fools? Oh! about the clever people of course. JACK: What fools.

Now produce your explanation and pray make it improbable.

We teach people how to remember, we never teach them how to grow.

Love is a sacrament that should be taken kneeling, and Domine non sum dignus should be on the lips and in the hearts of those who receive it.

When bankers get together for dinner, they discuss Art. When artists get together for dinner, they discuss Money

Imagination is a quality that was given to man compensate him from whats not. The sense of humor was given to console him from what is.

A poet can survive everything but a misprint.

I don't want to earn my living, I want to live.

Do you smoke? Well, yes, I must admit I smoke. I'm glad to hear of it. A man should always have an occupation of some kind.