There is only one thing in life worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about. - Oscar Wilde
There is something terribly morbid in the modern sympathy with pain. One should sympathise with the colour, the beauty, the joy of life. The less said about life's sores the better. - Oscar Wilde
There should be a law that no ordinary newspaper should be allowed to write about art. The harm they do by their foolish and random writing it would be impossible to overestimate - not to the artist, but to the public, blinding them to all but harming the artist not at all. - Oscar Wilde
Those who find ugly meanings in beautiful things are corrupt without being charming. This is a fault. Those who find beautiful meanings in beautiful things are the cultivated. For these there is hope. They are the elect to whom beautiful things mean only Beauty. There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written, or badly written. That is all. - Oscar Wilde
To lose one parent may be regarded as a misfortune; to lose both looks like carelessness. - 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
When a man has once loved a woman he will do anything for her except continue to love her. - Oscar Wilde
When I was young I thought that money was the most important thing in life; now that I am old I know that it is. - Oscar Wilde
While we look to the dramatist to give romance to realism, we ask of the actor to give realism to romance. - Oscar Wilde
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