Quotes from Oscar Wilde

What is beautiful is a joy for all seasons.

The only beautiful things are the things that do not concern us.

No object is so beautiful that, under certain conditions, it will not look ugly.

To me, Beauty is the wonder of wonders...It is only shallow people who do not judge by appearances.

I choose my friends for their good looks, my acquaintances for their good characters, and my enemies for their good intellects.

Moral grounds are always the last refuge of people who have no sense of beauty.

Those who find ugly meanings in beautiful things are corrupt without being charming. This is a fault.Those who find beautiful meanings in beautiful things are the cultivated. For these there is hope.

Beauty is the only thing that time cannot harm. Philosophies fall away like sand, creeds follow one another, but what is beautiful is a joy for all seasons, a possession for all eternity.

The best revenge is to live well.

I cannot choose one hundred best books because I have only written five

When good Americans die they go to Paris.

The salesman knows nothing of what he is selling save that he is charging a great deal too much for it.

Just to let you know that the buffet car will be closing for stocktaking in five minutes. The next station stop is Chesterfield.

Bad people are, from the point of view of art, fascinating studies. They represent colour, variety and strangeness. Good people exasperate one's reason; bad people stir one's imagination.

Deceiving others. That is what the world calls a romance.

There is a luxury in self-reproach. When we blame ourselves we feel that no one else has a right to blame us.

Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live; it is asking others to live as one wishes to life. Selfishness always aims at crating around it an absolutely uniformity of type.

Do you really think it is weakness that yields to temptation? I tell you that there are terrible temptations which it requires strength, strength and courage to yield to.

The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it.

There is luxury in self reproach. When we blame ourselves, we feel no one else has a right to blame us.

Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live; it is asking others to live as one wishes to live. And unselfishness is letting other people's lives alone, not interfering with them. Selfishness always aims at uniformity of type. Unselfishness recognizes infinite variety of type as a delightful thing, accepts it, acquiesces in it, enjoys it.

Every portrait that is painted with feeling is a portrait of the artist, not of the sitter.

Only the shallow know themselves.

The only thing to do with good advice is to pass it on. It is never any use to oneself.