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Self-denial is the shining sore on the leprous body of Christianity.
Oscar Wilde in ABSTINENCE
Art is not to be taught in Academies. It is what one looks at, not what one listens to, that makes the artist. The real schools should be the streets.
Oscar Wilde in ACADEMIA
Action is the last resource of those who know not how to dream.
Oscar Wilde in ACTION
I delight in men over seventy. They always offer one the devotion of a lifetime.
Oscar Wilde in AGE AND AGING
Thirty-five is a very attractive age. London society is full of women of the highest birth who have, of their own free choice, remained thirty-five for years.
Oscar Wilde in AGE AND AGING
The youth of America is their oldest tradition. It has been going on now for three hundred years.
Oscar Wilde in AMERICA
By persistently remaining single, a man converts himself into a permanent public temptation. Men should be more careful.
Oscar Wilde in BACHELOR
Nowadays, all the married men live like bachelors, and all the bachelors like married men.
Oscar Wilde in BACHELOR
Beauty is a form of genius -- is higher, indeed, than genius, as it needs no explanation. It is of the great facts in the world like sunlight, or springtime, or the reflection in dark water of that silver shell we call the moon.
Oscar Wilde in BEAUTY
I have found that all ugly things are made by those who strive to make something beautiful, and that all beautiful things are made by those who strive to make something useful.
Oscar Wilde in BEAUTY
As for begging, it is safer to beg than to take, but it is finer to take than to beg.
Oscar Wilde in BEGGARS
Formerly we used to canonize our heroes. The modern method is to vulgarize them. Cheap editions of great books may be delightful, but cheap editions of great men are absolutely detestable.
Oscar Wilde in BIOGRAPHY
One should never trust a woman who tells her real age. A woman who would tell one that would tell anything.
Oscar Wilde in BIRTHDAY
There is no such thing as a moral book or an immoral book. Books are well written or badly written. That is all.
Oscar Wilde in BOOKS AND READING
The fact is, the public make use of the classics of a country as a means of checking the progress of Art. They degrade the classics into authorities. They use them as bludgeons for preventing the free expression of Beauty in new forms.
Oscar Wilde in BOOKS_ CLASSICS
The only difference between a caprice and a life-long passion is that the caprice lasts a little longer.
Oscar Wilde in CAPRICE
Each of the professions means a prejudice. The necessity for a career forces every one to take sides. We live in the age of the overworked, and the under-educated; the age in which people are so industrious that they become absolutely stupid.
Oscar Wilde in CAREERS
It is a dangerous thing to reform anyone.
Oscar Wilde in CHANGE
It is only the superficial qualities that last. Man's deeper nature is soon found out.
Oscar Wilde in CHARACTER
All charming people, I fancy, are spoiled. It is the secret of their attraction.
Oscar Wilde in CHARM
Few parents nowadays pay any regard to what their children say to them. The old-fashioned respect for the young is fast dying out.
Oscar Wilde in CHILDREN
The best way to make children good is to make them happy.
Oscar Wilde in CHILDREN
Few parents nowadays pay any regard to what their children say to them. The old-fashioned respect for the young is fast dying out.
Oscar Wilde in CHILDREN
The best way to make children good is to make them happy.
Oscar Wilde in CHILDREN
How else but through a broken heart may Lord Christ enter in.
Oscar Wilde in CHRISTIAN
The cities of America are inexpressibly tedious. The Bostonians take their learning too sadly; culture with them is an accomplishment rather than an atmosphere; their ''Hub,'' as they call it, is the paradise of prigs. Chicago is a sort of monster-shop,
Oscar Wilde in CITIES AND CITY LIFE
Civilization is not by any means an easy thing to attain to. There are only two ways by which man can reach it. One is by being cultured, the other by being corrupt.
Oscar Wilde in CIVILIZATION
Civilisation is not by any means an easy thing to attain to. There are only two ways by which man can reach it. One is by being cultured, the other by being corrupt.
Oscar Wilde in CIVILIZATION
Really, if the lower orders don't set us a good example, what on earth is the use of them? They seem, as a class, to have absolutely no sense of moral responsibility.
Oscar Wilde in CLASS
In spite of the roaring of the young lions at the Union, and the screaming of the rabbits in the home of the vivisect, in spite of Keble College, and the tramways, and the sporting prints, Oxford still remains the most beautiful thing in England, and now
Oscar Wilde in COLLEGES AND UNIVERSITIES
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