Quotes from Oscar Wilde
Science is the record of dead religions.
- Oscar Wilde
How strange a thing this is! The Priest telleth me that the Soul is worth all the gold in the world, and the merchants say that it is not worth a clipped piece of silver.
- Oscar Wilde
There is something terribly morbid in the modern sympathy with pain. One should sympathise with the colour, the beauty, the joy of life. The less said about life's sores the better.
- Oscar Wilde
A cynic knows the price of everything and the value of nothing.
- Oscar Wilde
The heart was made to be broken.
- Oscar Wilde
As long as war is regarded as wicked it will always have its fascinations. When it is looked upon as vulgar, it will cease to be popular.
- Oscar Wilde
Be you because everyone else is taken!
- Oscar Wilde
Consistency is the last resort of the unimaginative.
- Oscar Wilde
Dreamers can find their way by moonlight and their only punishment is that they see the dawn before the rest of the world.
- Oscar Wilde
Education is an admirable thing, but it is well worth remembering from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.
- Oscar Wilde
Henry James writes fiction as if it were a painful duty.
- Oscar Wilde
Life imitates art more than art imitates life.
- Oscar Wilde