Oscar Wilde Quotes

It is only the modern that ever becomes old-fashioned.
Oscar Wilde

Modern, Becomes

One of the many lessons that one learns in prison is, that things are what they are and will be what they will be.
Oscar Wilde

Prison, Lessons, Learns

The critic has to educate the public; the artist has to educate the critic.
Oscar Wilde

Artist, Public, Critic

While we look to the dramatist to give romance to realism, we ask of the actor to give realism to romance.
Oscar Wilde

Give, While, Actor

Anybody can be good in the country. There are no temptations there.
Oscar Wilde

Good, Country, Anybody

Charity creates a multitude of sins.
Oscar Wilde

Charity, Sins, Multitude

In married life three is company and two none.
Oscar Wilde

Life, Two, Married

I suppose society is wonderfully delightful. To be in it is merely a bore. But to be out of it is simply a tragedy.
Oscar Wilde

Society, Simply, Tragedy

It is only an auctioneer who can equally and impartially admire all schools of art.
Oscar Wilde

Art, Admire, Schools

Now that the House of Commons is trying to become useful, it does a great deal of harm.
Oscar Wilde

Great, Trying, Become

The imagination imitates. It is the critical spirit that creates.
Oscar Wilde

Spirit, Critical, Creates

Biography lends to death a new terror.
Oscar Wilde

Death, Terror, Biography

In modern life nothing produces such an effect as a good platitude. It makes the whole world kin.
Oscar Wilde

Life, Good, Nothing

It is always the unreadable that occurs.
Oscar Wilde

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

Great, Nothing, Knows

There is always something infinitely mean about other people's tragedies.
Oscar Wilde

Mean, Tragedies, Infinitely

What we have to do, what at any rate it is our duty to do, is to revive the old art of Lying.
Oscar Wilde

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

Painful, Duty, Fiction

There is something terribly morbid in the modern sympathy with pain. One should sympathise with the colour, the beauty, the joy of life. The less said about life's sores the better.
Oscar Wilde

Life, Beauty, Sympathy

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Biography

Nationality: Irish

Type: Dramatist

Born: October 16, 1854

Died: November 30, 1900

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