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“It is a very sad thing that nowadays there is so little useless information.”

Oscar Wilde

A Few Maxims for the Instruction of the Over-Educated (1894)

“As for believing things, I can believe anything, provided that it is quite incredible.”

Oscar Wilde book The Picture of Dorian Gray

Variant: I can believe anything provided it is incredible.
Source: The Picture of Dorian Gray

“The only horrible thing in the world is ennui.”

Oscar Wilde book The Picture of Dorian Gray

Source: The Picture of Dorian Gray

“Dear little Swallow,’ said the Prince, ‘you tell me of marvelous things, but more marvelous than anything is the suffering of men and of women. There is no Mystery so great as Misery.”

Oscar Wilde book The Happy Prince and Other Tales

Source: The Happy Prince and Other Tales

“I love scrapes. They are the only things that are never serious."
"Oh, that's nonsense, Algy. You never talk anything but nonsense."
"Nobody ever does.”

Oscar Wilde The Importance of Being Earnest

Source: The Importance of Being Earnest

“An artist should create beautiful things, but should put nothing of his own life into them.”

Oscar Wilde book The Picture of Dorian Gray

Source: The Picture of Dorian Gray

“As for omens, there is no such thing as an omen. Destiny does not send us heralds. She is too wise or too cruel for that.”

Oscar Wilde book The Picture of Dorian Gray

Source: The Picture of Dorian Gray

“The final revelation is that Lying, the telling of beautiful untrue things, is the proper aim of Art.”

Oscar Wilde book The Decay of Lying

The Decay of Lying (1889)

“I am sick to death of cleverness. Everybody is clever nowadays. You can’t go anywhere without meeting clever people. The thing has become an absolute public nuisance. I wish to goodness we had a few fools left.”

Oscar Wilde The Importance of Being Earnest

Source: The Importance of Being Earnest

“Is insincerity such a terrible thing? I think not. It is merely a method by which we can multiply our personalities.”

Oscar Wilde book The Picture of Dorian Gray

Source: The Picture of Dorian Gray

“Lady Bracknell. Good afternoon, dear Algernon, I hope you are behaving very well.

Algernon. I’m feeling very well, Aunt Augusta.

Lady Bracknell. That’s not quite the same thing. In fact the two things rarely go together.”

Oscar Wilde The Importance of Being Earnest

Source: The Importance of Being Earnest

“It is a sad truth, but we have lost the faculty of giving lovely names to things.”

Oscar Wilde book The Picture of Dorian Gray

Source: The Picture of Dorian Gray

“It is always a silly thing to give advice, but to give good advice is absolutely fatal.”

Oscar Wilde Lady Windermere's Fan

The Portrait of Mr. W. H. (1889), p. 5
Source: Lady Windermere's Fan

“Veil after veil of thin dusky gauze is lifted, and by degrees the forms and colours of things are restored to them, and we watch the dawn remaking the world in its antique pattern.”

Oscar Wilde book The Picture of Dorian Gray

Source: The Picture of Dorian Gray

“What a silly thing love is! It is not half as useful as logic, for it does not prove anything and it is always telling one things that are not going to happen, and making one believe things that are not true.”

Oscar Wilde

“Even things that are true can be proved.”

Oscar Wilde book The Picture of Dorian Gray

Source: The Picture of Dorian Gray

“We can forgive a man for making a useful thing as long as he does not admire it. The only excuse for making a useless thing is that one admires it intensely.

All art is quite useless.”

Oscar Wilde book The Picture of Dorian Gray

Source: The Picture of Dorian Gray

“There is nothing in the world like the devotion of a married woman. It is a thing no married man knows anything about.”

Oscar Wilde