Quotes from Oscar Wilde
I have found that all ugly things are made by those who strive to make something beautiful, and that all beautiful things are made by those who strive to make something useful.
- Oscar Wilde
What is beautiful is a joy for all seasons.
- Oscar Wilde
No object is so beautiful that, under certain conditions, it will not look ugly.
- Oscar Wilde
I choose my friends for their good looks, my acquaintances for their good characters, and my enemies for their good intellects.
- Oscar Wilde
I cannot choose one hundred best books because I have only written five
- Oscar Wilde
Just to let you know that the buffet car will be closing for stocktaking in five minutes. The next station stop is Chesterfield.
- Oscar Wilde
Bad people are, from the point of view of art, fascinating studies. They represent colour, variety and strangeness. Good people exasperate one's reason; bad people stir one's imagination.
- Oscar Wilde
Deceiving others. That is what the world calls a romance.
- Oscar Wilde
There is a luxury in self-reproach. When we blame ourselves we feel that no one else has a right to blame us.
- Oscar Wilde
There is luxury in self reproach. When we blame ourselves, we feel no one else has a right to blame us.
- Oscar Wilde
Only the shallow know themselves.
- Oscar Wilde
An ordinary man away from home giving advice.
- Oscar Wilde