Quotes from Oscar Wilde

America has been discovered before, but it has always been hushed up.

Art is the most intense form of individualism that the world has known.

As long as war is regarded as wicked it will always have its fascinations. When it is looked upon as vulgar, it will cease to be popular.

At twilight, nature is not without loveliness, though perhaps its chief use is to illustrate quotations from the poets.

Be you because everyone else is taken!

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.

Bore: a man who is never unintentionally rude.

Chastity is the greatest form of perversion.

Conscience and cowardice are really the same thing. Conscience is the trade-name of the firm.

Consistency is the last resort of the unimaginative.

Democracy is the bludgeoning of the people, by the people, for the people.

Divorces are made in heaven.

Dreamers can find their way by moonlight and their only punishment is that they see the dawn before the rest of the world.

Education is an admirable thing, but it is well worth remembering from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.

Everyone who is incapable of learning has taken to teaching.

Henry James writes fiction as if it were a painful duty.

Life imitates art more than art imitates life.

Man can believe the impossible, but man can never believe the improbable.

Man is a rational animal who always loses his temper when he is called upon to act in accordance with the dictates of reason.

Missionaries are going to reform the world whether it wants to or not.

Morality is simply the attitude we adopt toward people we personally dislike.

my wallpaper and I are fighting a duel to death. one or the other has to go.

Newspapers have degenerated. They may now be absolutely relied upon.

Nothing is so aggravating as calmness.