Oscar Wilde
1854 - 1900
Irish dramatist,
novelist and poet
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‘Morality, like art, means drawing a line someplace’
‘One should always play fairly when one has the winning cards’
‘Anyone who lives within their means suffers from a lack of imagination’
‘Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much’
‘Arguments are to be avoided; they are always vulgar and often convincing’
‘Biography lends to death a new terror’
‘Consistency is the last refuge of the unimaginative’
‘Every portrait that is painted with feeling is a portrait of the artist, not of the sitter’
‘Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months’
‘I was working on the proof of one of my poems all the morning, and took out a comma. In the afternoon I put it back again’
‘If you want to tell people the truth, make them laugh, otherwise they’ll kill you’
‘Illusion is the first of all pleasures’
‘To live is the rarest thing on the world. Most people exist, that is all’
‘The book that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame’
‘I don’t want to go to heaven. None of my friends are there’
‘Every saint has a past, and every sinner has a future’
‘A cynic man is a man who knows the price of everything, and the value of nothing’
‘Who, being loved, is poor?
‘You don’t love someone for their looks, or their clothes, or for their fancy car, but because they sing a song only you can hear’
‘With freedom, books, flowers, and the moon, who could not be happy?’
‘I have nothing to declare except my genius’
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