Quotes from Oscar Wilde

thing we ask a servant for is a testimonial to honesty, sobriety and industry; for we soon find out that these are the scarce things, and that geniuses and clever people are as common as rats.

But she would have soon found out that you were absolutely indifferent to her. And when a woman finds that out about her husband, she either becomes dreadfully dowdy, or wears very smart bonnets that some other woman's husband has to pay for.

Children begin by loving their parents; as they grow older they judge them; sometimes they forgive them. His

the poet must sing, and the sculptor think in bronze, and the painter make the world a mirror for his moods, as surely and as certainly as the hawthorn must blossom in spring, and the corn turn to gold at the harvest-time, and the moon in her ordered wanderings change from shield to sickle, and from sickle to shield.

There were sins whose fascination was more in the memory than in the doing of them, strange triumphs that gratified the pride more than the passions, and gave to the intellect a quickened sense of joy, greater than any joy they brought, or could ever bring, to the senses. But this was not one of them.

One must be serious about something, if one wants to have any amusement in life.

"You don't love somebody for their looks, or their clothes or for their fancy car; but because they sing a song only you can hear."

We live, I regret to say, in an age of Big Data hype.

We live in the age of the overworked and the undereducated.

He who stands most remote from his age is he who mirrors it best.

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.

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