Nothing can cure the soul but the senses, just as nothing can cure the senses but the soul. - Oscar Wilde
Nothing, indeed, is more dangerous to the young artist than any conception of ideal beauty: he is constantly led by it either into weak prettiness or lifeless abstraction: whereas to touch the ideal at all, you must not strip it of vitality. - Oscar Wilde
Now that the House of Commons is trying to become useful, it does a great deal of harm. - Oscar Wilde
One can survive everything, nowadays, except death, and live down everything except a good reputation. - Oscar Wilde
One of the many lessons that one learns in prison is, that things are what they are and will be what they will be. - Oscar Wilde
One should never trust a woman who tells one her real age. A woman who would tell one that would tell one anything. - Oscar Wilde
Ordinary riches can be stolen; real riches cannot. In your soul are infinitely precious things that cannot be taken from you. - Oscar Wilde
Our ambition should be to rule ourselves, the true kingdom for each one of us; and true progress is to know more, and be more, and to do more. - Oscar Wilde
Perhaps one of the most difficult things for us to do is to choose a notable and joyous dress for men. There would be more joy in life if we were to accustom ourselves to use all the beautiful colours we can in fashioning our own clothes. - Oscar Wilde
Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself would say that it had merely been detected. - Oscar Wilde
Romance should never begin with sentiment. It should begin with science and end with a settlement. - Oscar Wilde
Romantic art deals with the exception and with the individual. Good people, belonging as they do to the normal, and so, commonplace type, are artistically uninteresting. - Oscar Wilde
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