Sphinxes without secrets. Oscar Wilde More Quotes by Oscar Wilde More Quotes From Oscar Wilde More than half of modern culture depends upon what one shouldn't read. Oscar Wilde importance-of-being-earnesthalfculture There is always something ridiculous about the emotions of people whom one has ceased to love. Oscar Wilde sarcasticlovefunny It is a sad thing to think of, but there is no doubt that genius lasts longer than beauty. That accounts for the fact that we all take such pains to over-educate ourselves. In the wild struggle for existence, we want to have something that endures, and so we fill our minds with rubbish and facts, in the silly hope of keeping our place. The thoroughly well-informed man--that is the modern ideal. And the mind of the thoroughly well-informed man is a dreadful thing. It is like a bric-a-brac shop, all monsters and dust, with everything priced above its proper value. Oscar Wilde painstrugglesilly All charming people, I fancy, are spoiled. It is the secret of their attraction. Oscar Wilde selfishsecretpeople Thinking is wonderful, but the experience is even more wonderful. Oscar Wilde wonderfulthinking People who count their chickens before they are hatched act very wisely because chickens run about so absurdly that it's impossible to count them accurately. Oscar Wilde impossiblerunningpeople A man is called affected, nowadays, if he dresses as he likes to dress. But in doing that he is acting in a perfectly natural manner. Affectation, in such matters, consists in dressing according to the views of one's neighbour, whose views, as they are the views of the majority, will probably be extremely stupid. Oscar Wilde stupidviewsmen What is a cynic? A man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing. Oscar Wilde leadershipinspirationalfunny The aim of love is to love. No more, no less. Oscar Wilde aimlove-is I have found that all ugly things are made by those who strive to make something beautiful, and that all beautiful things are made by those who strive to make something useful. Oscar Wilde ugly-thingsbeautifulbeauty Schools should be the most beautiful place in every town and village-so beautiful that the punishment for undutiful children should be barred from going to school the following day. Oscar Wilde educationbeautifulchildren Travel ennobles the spirit and does away with our prejudices. Oscar Wilde prejudicespiritdoe Love does not traffic in a marketplace, nor use a huckster's scales. Its joy, like the joy of the intellect, is to feel itself alive. The aim of Love is to love: no more, and no less. You were my enemy: such an enemy as no man ever had. I had given you all my life, and to gratify the lowest and most contemptible of all human passions, hatred and vanity and greed, you had thrown it away. In less than three years you had entirely ruined me in every point of view. For my own sake there was nothing for me to do but to love you. Oscar Wilde passionlove-youmen Things are because we see them, and what we see, and how we see it, depends on the Arts that influenced us. To look at a thing is very different from seeing a thing. One does not see anything until one sees its beauty. Then, and then only, does it comes into existence. Oscar Wilde differentdoeart Nature: a place where birds fly around uncooked Oscar Wilde environmentnaturebird It is only the modern that ever becomes old-fashioned. Oscar Wilde modernclothesfashion It is only the intellectually lost who ever argue. Oscar Wilde intelligenceintellectualpersonality Memory is the diary that chronicles things that never have happened and couldn't possibly have happened. Oscar Wilde chroniclesdiariesmemories To regret one’s own experiences is to arrest one’s own development. To deny one’s own experiences is to put a lie into the lips of one’s own life. It is no less than a denial of the soul. Oscar Wilde regretsoullying When a man has once loved a woman he will do anything for her except continue to love her. Oscar Wilde lovemen
