I have the simplest tastes. I am always satisfied with the best. – Oscar Wilde
I regard the theatre as the greatest of all art forms, the most immediate way in which a human being can share with another the sense of what it is to be a human being. – Oscar Wilde
It is through art, and through art only, that we can realise our perfection. – Oscar Wilde
All art is quite useless. – Oscar Wilde
It is only an auctioneer who can equally and impartially admire all schools of art. – Oscar Wilde
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
A work of art is the unique result of a unique temperament. – Oscar Wilde
Art is the most intense mode of individualism that the world has known. – Oscar Wilde
Life imitates art far more than art imitates Life. – Oscar Wilde
No woman should ever be quite accurate about her age. It looks so calculating. – Oscar Wilde
One should always play fair when one has the winning cards. – Oscar Wilde
I never go without my dinner. No one ever does, except vegetarians and people like that. – Oscar Wilde
It is a terrible thing for a man to find out suddenly that all his life he has been speaking nothing but the truth. – Oscar Wilde
How strange a thing this is! The Priest telleth me that the Soul is worth all the gold in the world, and the merchants say that it is not worth a clipped piece of silver. – Oscar Wilde
Football is all very well as a game for rough girls, but is hardly suitable for delicate boys. – Oscar Wilde
I never saw a man who looked with such a wistful eye upon that little tent of blue which prisoners call the sky. – Oscar Wilde
Do you really think it is weakness that yields to temptation? I tell you that there are terrible temptations which it requires strength, strength and courage to yield to. – Oscar Wilde
There is luxury in self-reproach…. When we blame ourselves we feel no one else has a right to blame us. – Oscar Wilde
Science is the record of dead religions. – Oscar Wilde
Duty is what one expects from others. – Oscar Wilde
