Oscar Wilde Quotes

because to influence a person is to give one's own soul.

When one pays a visit it is for the purpose of wasting other people's time, not one's own.

Art only begins where Imitation ends.

I don't play accurately — any one can play accurately — but I play with wonderful expression. As far as the piano is concerned, sentiment is my forte. I keep science for Life.

Wickedness is a myth invented by good people to account for the curious attractiveness of others.

One should always be a little improbable.

There are moments when one has to choose between living one's own life, fully, entirely, completely-or dragging out some false, shallow, degrading existence that the world in its hypocrisy demands.

Only dull people are brilliant at breakfast.

But beauty, real beauty, ends where an intellectual expression begins. Intellect is in itself a mode of exaggeration, and destroys the harmony of any face.

Only the shallow know themselves

When you really want love, you will find it waiting for you.

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

Genius lasts longer than beauty

It's tragic how few people ever 'possess their souls' before they die. 'Nothing is more rare in any man', says Emerson, 'than an act of his own.' It is quite true. Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their life is a mimicry, their passions a quotation.

Art finds her own perfection within, and not outside of herself. She is not to be judged by any external standard of resemblance. She is a veil, rather than a mirror.