Oscar Wilde: Trending quotes (page 27)

“Being natural is simply a pose, and the most irritating pose I know.”

“Sarcasm is the lowest form of wit.”

“My dear boy, no woman is a genius. Women are a decorative sex. They never have anything to say, but they say it charmingly. Women represent the triumph of matter over mind, just as men represent the triumph of mind over morals.”

“Morality, like art, means drawing a line someplace.”

“I'm a man of simple tastes. I'm always satisfied with the best.”

“Oscar Wilde was suing the Marquis of Queensbury in 1895 for libel accusing Wilde of homosexuality

Counsel: Have you ever adored a young man madly?
Wilde: I have never given adoration to anyone except myself.”

“Lord Illingworth: Discontent is the first step in the progress of a man or a nation.”

“The smallest act of kindness is worth more than the grandest intention.”

“It is through art, and through art only, that we can realize our perfection; through art and art only that we can shield ourselves from the sordid perils of actual existence.”

“When I think of all the harm [the Bible] has done, I despair of ever writing anything to equal it.”

“Women, as some witty Frenchman once put it, inspire us with the desire to do masterpieces and always prevent us from carrying them out.”

“The soul is a terrible reality. It can be bought and sold and bartered away.”

“Wisdom comes with winters”

“The gods are strange. It is not our vices only they make instruments to scourge us. They bring us to ruin through what in us is good, gentle, humane, loving.”

“Indeed, no woman should ever be quite accurate about her age. It looks so calculating.”

“My dear fellow, the truth isn't quite the sort of thing one tells to a nice, sweet, refined girl.”

“I am happy in my prison of passion”

“I hate vulgar realism in literature. The man who would call a spade a spade should be compelled to use one.”

“It is better to be beautiful then to be good, but it is better to be good then to be ugly.”