Quotes from Oscar Wilde
It is not wise to find symbols in everything that one sees. It makes life too full of terrors.
- Oscar Wilde
I've now realised for the first time in my life the vital Importance of Being Earnest.
- Oscar Wilde
Youth! There is nothing like youth. The middle-aged are mortgaged to Life. The old are in Life's lumber
- Oscar Wilde
The critic has to educate the public; the artist has to educate the critic.
- Oscar Wilde
It is what you read when you don't have to that determines what you will be when you can't help it.
- Oscar Wilde
Nothing is so aggravating than calmness.
- Oscar Wilde
His morality is all sympathy, just what morality should be
- Oscar Wilde
I gave my genius to my life, but my talent to my art.
- Oscar Wilde
For life is terribly deficient in form. Its catastrophes happen in the wrong way and to the wrong people. There is a grotesque horror about its comedies, and its tragedies seem to culminate in farce.
- Oscar Wilde
I think life too complex a thing to be settled by these hard and fast rules.
- Oscar Wilde
Where your life leads you, you must go
- Oscar Wilde
America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between.
- Oscar Wilde