Oscar Wilde Quotes

I am happy in my prison of passion

Behind every exquisite thing that existed, there was something tragic.

Sarcasm is the lowest form of wit.

Le seul charme du passé, c'est qu'il est le passé. Mais les femmes ne savent jamais quand le rideau est tombé. Elles veulent toujours un sixième acte. C'est quand l'intérêt de la pièce est épuisé qu'elles demandent le plus fort qu'on la prolonge. Si on les écoutait, toute comédie aurait un dénouement tragique, et toute tragédie s'achèverait en farce.

The only people I would care to be with now are artists and people who have suffered: those who know what beauty is, and those who know what sorrow is: nobody else interests me.

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

Life is never fair, and perhaps it is a good thing for most of us that it is not.

One should absorb the colour of life, but one should never remember its details. Details are always vulgar.

Indeed I have always been of the opinion that hard work is simply the refuge of people who have nothing to do.

Appearance blinds, whereas words reveal.

To be born, or at any rate bred, in a hand-bag, whether it had handles or not, seems to me to display a contempt for the ordinary decencies of family life that reminds one of the worst excesses of the French Revolution.

For Man's grim Justice goes its way, And will not swerve aside: It slays the weak, it slays the strong, It has a deadly stride: With iron heel it slays the strong, The monstrous parricide!

Sometimes the poor are praised for being thrifty. But to recommend thrift to the poor is both grotesque and insulting. It is like advising a man who is starving to eat less.

La experiencia no tiene ningún valor ético. Es simplemente el nombre que los hombres dan a sus errores

All charming people, I fancy, are spoiled. It is the secret of their attraction.