Oscar Wilde quotes was an Irish writer and poet Born: 10/16/1854 Died: 11/30/1900 Country: united_kingdom

• I can resist everything except temptation. (Oscar Wilde) [temptation]
• How strange a thing this is! The Priest telleth me that the Soul is worth all the gold in the world, and the merchants say that it is not worth a clipped piece of silver. (Oscar Wilde) [strange/thing/gold]
• Nothing that is worth knowing can be taught. (Oscar Wilde)
• Good resolutions are useless attempts to interfere with scientific laws. Their origin is pure vanity. Their result is absolutely nil. They give us, now and then, some of those luxurious sterile emotions that have a certain charm for the weak. They a (Oscar Wilde) [vanity/result/give/charm]
• Romance should never begin with sentiment. It should begin with science and end with a settlement. (Oscar Wilde) [science/start]
• Life is too important to be taken seriously. (Oscar Wilde) [life/seriously]
• The State is to make what is useful. The individual is to make what is beautiful. (Oscar Wilde) [state]
• Do you really think, Arthur, that it is weakness that yields to temptation? I tell you that there are terrible temptations that it requires strength, strength and courage, to yield to. (Oscar Wilde) [think/weakness/courage]
• Anybody can be good in the country. There are no temptations there. (Oscar Wilde)
• He must have a truly romantic nature, for he weeps when there is nothing at all to weep about. (Oscar Wilde) [nature]
• A sentimentalist is simply one who desires to have the luxury of an emotion without paying for it. (Oscar Wilde) [desires/luxury]
• One is absolutely sickened, not by the crimes that the wicked have committed, but by the punishments that the good have inflicted; and a community is infinitely more brutalized by the habitual employment of punishment than it is by the occasional occurrence of crime. (Oscar Wilde) [more/employment/punishment/crime]
• Religions die when they are proved to be true. Science is the record of dead religions. (Oscar Wilde) [science]
• The old-fashioned respect for the young is fast dying out. (Oscar Wilde) [respect]
• The greatest of all sins is stupidity. (Oscar Wilde) [stupidity]
• Man is a rational animal who always loses his temper when called upon to act according with the dictates of reason. (Oscar Wilde)
• I can sympathize with everything, except suffering. (Oscar Wilde) [suffering]
• Lots of people act well, but few people talk well. This shows that talking is the more difficult of the two. (Oscar Wilde) [people/people/more]
• Where there is sorrow there is holy ground. (Oscar Wilde) [sorrow]
• To have the reputation of possessing the most perfect social tact, talk to every woman as if you loved her, and to every man as if he bored you. (Oscar Wilde) [reputation/perfect/]
• Thinking is the most unhealthy thing in the world, and people die of it just as they die of any other disease. Fortunately, in England at any rate, thought is not catching. Our splendid physique as a people is entirely due to our national stupidity. (Oscar Wilde) [thinking/thing/people/disease]
• He was always late on principle, his principle being that punctuality is the thief of time. (Oscar Wilde) [being/time]
• Yes, I am a thorough republican. No other form of government is so favorable to the growth of art. (Oscar Wilde) [form/government/growth/art]
• The sick do not ask if the hand that smoothes their pillow is pure, nor the dying care if the lips that touch their brow have known the kiss of sin. (Oscar Wilde) [care/kiss/sin]
• Punctuality is the thief of time. Wilde I never travel without my diary. One should always have Something sensational to read in the train. (Oscar Wilde) [time]
• The only thing that ever consoles man for the stupid things he does is the praise he always gives himself for doing them. (Oscar Wilde) [thing]
• Nothing spoils a romance so much as a sense of humor in the woman. (Oscar Wilde)
• Talk to a woman as if you loved her, and to a man as if he bored you. (Oscar Wilde)
• 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. (Oscar Wilde) [thing/excuse/thing]
• In a very ugly and sensible age, the arts borrow, not from life, but from each other. (Oscar Wilde) [ugly/age/life]
• Modern pictures are, no doubt, delightful to look at. At least, some of them are. But they are quite impossible to live with; they are too clever, too assertive, too intellectual. Their meaning is too obvious, and their method too clearly defined. One (Oscar Wilde) [look/method]

Calendar

Sun Mon Tue Wen Thu Fri Sat Apr 25 [65] 26 [51] 27 [71] 28 Apr 29 [10] 30 [58] 1 [2] 2 [50] 3 [73] 4 [75] 5 [35] May 6 [75] 7 [104] 8 [50] 9 10 [106] 11 [79] 12 [50] May 13 [50] 14 [8] 15 [75] 16 [114] 17 [50] 18 [112] 19 May 20 [79] 21 [76] 22 [59] 23 [43] 24 [61] 25 [71] 26 [50] May

The Best Authors

Search

Pop by Searches

Best Quote

Worst Quote