Now and then it is a joy to have one's table red with wine and roses. Oscar Wilde More Quotes by Oscar Wilde More Quotes From Oscar Wilde Morality is simply the attitude we adopt towards people whom we personally dislike. Oscar Wilde inspiringinspirationalfunny I beg your pardon I didn't recognise you - I've changed a lot. Oscar Wilde recognise-youpardonive-changed A work of art is the unique result of a unique temperament. Its beauty comes from the fact that the author is what he is. It has nothing to do with the fact that other people want what they want. Oscar Wilde uniquepeopleart We are each our own devil, and we make this world our hell. Oscar Wilde criminal-mindevilworld No work of art ever puts forward views. Views belong to people who are not artists. Oscar Wilde viewspeopleart A pessimist is somebody who complains about the noise when opportunity knocks. Oscar Wilde optimismcomplainingopportunity Art is the only serious thing in the world. And the artist is the only person who is never serious. Oscar Wilde serious-personserious-thingsart Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months. Oscar Wilde fashionsarcasticfunny I refuse to have a battle of wits with an unarmed man. Oscar Wilde humormenfunny The nicest feeling in the world is to do a good deed anonymously-and have somebody find out. Oscar Wilde deedsfeelingsworld A man who marries his mistress leaves a vacancy in that position. Oscar Wilde vacancymistressmen The man who says his wife can't take a joke, forgets that she took him. Oscar Wilde marriagelifefunny One can live for years sometimes without living at all, and then all life comes crowding into one single hour. Oscar Wilde sometimeslifeyears I like hearing myself talk. It is one of my greatest pleasures. I often have long conversations all by myself. Sometimes I am so clever I don't understand a single word of what I am saying. Oscar Wilde hearingcleverlong I don't want to earn my living, I want to live. Oscar Wilde meaningfullovelife If you want to be a grocer, or a general, or a politician, or a judge, you will invariably become it; that is your punishment. If you never know what you want to be, if you live what some might call the dynamic life but what I will call the artistic life, if each day you are unsure of who you are and what you know you will never become anything, and that is your reward. Oscar Wilde artistic-lifepunishmentjudging The soul is born old but grows young. That is the comedy of life. Oscar Wilde soulspiritualinspirational Anyone can sympathize with the sufferings of a friend, but it requires a very fine nature to sympathize with a friend's success. Oscar Wilde inspirationallovefriendship The only difference between the saint and the sinner is that every saint has a past, and every sinner has a future. Oscar Wilde futuredreaminspirational Art only begins where Imitation ends. Oscar Wilde imitationendsart
