Rich bachelors should be heavily taxed. It is not fair that some men should be happier than others. Oscar Wilde More Quotes by Oscar Wilde More Quotes From Oscar Wilde A mask tells us more than a face. Oscar Wilde maskfaces I now see that sorrow, being the supreme emotion of which man is capable, is at once the type and test of all great art. Oscar Wilde griefmenart I like talking to a brick wall- it's the only thing in the world that never contradicts me! Oscar Wilde walltalkingworld Where there is no love there is no understanding. Oscar Wilde no-loveextravaganceunderstanding Mere color, unspoiled by meaning, and unallied with definite form, can speak to the soul in a thousand different ways. Oscar Wilde colordifferentsoul Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious. Oscar Wilde patrioticsarcasticfunny Moderation is a fatal thing. Nothing succeeds like excess. Oscar Wilde drinkingbeerfunny The first duty in life is to be as artificial as possible. What the second duty is no one has as yet discovered. Oscar Wilde dutylifefirsts Veil after veil of thin dusky gauze is lifted, and by degrees the forms and colours of things are restored to them, and we watch the dawn remaking the world in its antique pattern. Oscar Wilde degreesdawnwatches The mystery of love is greater than the mystery of death. Oscar Wilde love-isinspirationallife The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it. Resist it, and your soul grows sick with longing for the things it has forbidden to itself, with desire for what its monstrous laws have made monstrous and unlawful. Oscar Wilde yieldsicklaw The heart was made to be broken. Oscar Wilde moving-onbroken-heartbreak-up The public is wonderfully tolerant. It forgives everything except genius. Oscar Wilde forgivenessletting-gobook Genius learns from nature, its own nature. Talent learns from art. Oscar Wilde learninggeniusart I treated Art as the supreme reality and life as a mere mode of fiction. Oscar Wilde liferealityart Now it seems to me that love of some kind is the only possible explanation of the extraordinary amount of suffering that there is in the world. I cannot conceive of any other explanation. I am convinced that there is no other, and that if the world has indeed, as I have said, been built of sorrow, it has been built by the hands of love, because in no other way could the soul of man, for whom the world was made, reach the full stature of its perfection. Pleasure for the beautiful body, but pain for the beautiful soul. Oscar Wilde painbeautifulmen Circumstances should never alter principles! Oscar Wilde principlesshouldcircumstances Friendship is far more tragic than love. It lasts longer. Oscar Wilde sarcasticfriendshipfunny Art finds her own perfection within, and not outside of, herself. She is not to be judged by any external standard of resemblance. Oscar Wilde resemblance-isperfectionart The best revenge is to live well. Oscar Wilde live-wellstay-strongrevenge
