“A arte é a mais intensa forma de individualismo que o mundo conhece.”
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Famous Oscar Wilde Quotes
Source: The Soul of Man under Socialism
Source: The Soul of Man under Socialism
“Because you have now the most marvellous youth, and youth is the one thing worth having.”
Source: The Picture of Dorain Gray
“Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead.”
Source: Epigrams of Oscar Wilde
“Always forgive your enemies - nothing annoys them so much.”
Source: The Happy Prince
Source: Oscar Wilde - The Major Works
Source: The Collected Works of Oscar Wilde
“Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes.”
Source: Epigrams and Aphorisms
“We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.”
“A man can be happy with any woman, as long as he does not love her.”
Source: Collected Works of Oscar Wilde: The Plays, the Poems, the Stories and the Essays Including De Profundis
“I have the simplest tastes. I am always satisfied with the best.”
Source: The Wit and Humor of Oscar Wilde
“A man who does not think for himself does not think at all.”
Source: Aphorisms
“Morality is simply the attitude we adopt towards people whom we personally dislike.”
Source: The Wit and Wisdom of Oscar Wilde
“What is a cynic? A man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing.”
“Life is far too important a thing ever to talk seriously about.”
Source: The Importance of Being Earnest and Other Plays
Source: The Importance of Being Earnest
“Everybody who is incapable of learning has taken to teaching.”
Source: The Wit and Wisdom of Oscar Wilde
“One should always play fairly when one has the winning cards.”
Source: The Best of Oscar Wilde: Selected Plays and Writings
“Pessimist: One who, when he has the choice of two evils, chooses both.”
“A thing is not necessarily true because a man dies for it.”
“The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame.”
“Nothing can cure the soul but the senses, just as nothing can cure the senses but the soul.”
Source: Epigrams of Oscar Wilde
“The true mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible.”
Source: The Picture Of Dorian Gray
Source: An Ideal Husband
“To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.”
“The mystery of love is greater than the mystery of death.”
Source: SALOM: A TRAGEDY IN ONE ACT
“Every saint has a past, and every sinner has a future.”
Source: The Prose of Oscar Wilde
“Now art should never try to be popular. The public should try to make itself artistic.”
Source: Collected Works of Oscar Wilde: The Plays, the Poems, the Stories and the Essays Including De Profundis
“What seems to us as bitter trials are often blessings in disguise”
Source: The Importance of Being Earnest
“The secret to life is to enjoy the pleasure of being terribly, terribly deceived.”
“The true perfection of man lies not in what man has, but in what man is.”
“It is always a silly thing to give advice, but to give good advice is absolutely fatal.”
Source: The Wit and Humor of Oscar Wilde
Source: The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: De profundis,