Oscar Wilde: Trending quotes (page 28)

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

“And what sort of lives do these people, who pose as being moral, lead themselves? My dear fellow, you forget that we are in the native land of the hypocrite.”

“A writer is someone who has taught his mind to misbehave.”

“Love is a gross exaggeration of the difference between one person and everybody else.”

“Arguments are to be avoided, they are always vulgar and often convincing.”

“Alcohol, taken in sufficient quantities, may produce all the effects of drunkenness.”

“The secret of remaining young is never to have an emotion that is unbecoming.”

“It is absurd to have a hard and fast rule about what one should read and what one shouldn't. More than half of modern culture depends on what one shouldn't read.”

“The past could always be annihilated. Regret, denial, or forgetfulness could do that. But the future was inevitable.”

“All art is at once surface and symbol. Those who go beneath the surface do so at their peril.”

“In the wild struggle for existence, we want to have something that endures, and so we fill our minds with rubbish and facts, in the silly hope of keeping our place.”

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

“When we are happy, we are always good, but when we are good, we are not always happy.”

“I drink to separate my body from my soul.”

“Knowledge would be fatal. It is the uncertainty that charms one. A mist makes things wonderful.”

“Life is a nightmare that prevents one from sleeping.”

“If you cannot write well, you cannot think well; if you cannot think well, others will do your thinking for you.”

“You know more than you think you know, just as you know less than you want to know.”

“Where there is sorrow there is holy ground.”