Oscar Wilde

Do you really think it is weakness that yields to temptation? I tell you that there are terrible temptations which it requires strength, strength and courage to yield to.

Laughter is not at all a bad beginning for a friendship, and it is far the best ending for one.

I have the simplest tastes. I am always satisfied with the best.

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.

Morality is simply the attitude we adopt towards people whom we personally dislike.

What we have to do, what at any rate it is our duty to do, is to revive the old art of Lying.

It is only an auctioneer who can equally and impartially admire all schools of art.

The moment you think you understand a great work of art, it's dead for you.

All art is quite useless.

It is through art, and through art only, that we can realise our perfection.

I regard the theatre as the greatest of all art forms, the most immediate way in which a human being can share with another the sense of what it is to be a human being.

Life imitates art far more than art imitates Life.

Art is the most intense mode of individualism that the world has known.

No great artist ever sees things as they really are. If he did, he would cease to be an artist.

A work of art is the unique result of a unique temperament.

No woman should ever be quite accurate about her age. It looks so calculating.