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Quotes by Johann Oscar Wilde 81-120
81 Conversation about the weather is the last refuge of the unimaginative.
82 It is only the sacred things that are worth touching.
83 The basis of optimism is sheer terror.
84 Art is rarely intelligible to the criminal classes.
85 I am happy in my prison of passion.
86 My great mistake, the fault for which I can’t forgive myself, is that one day I ceased my obstinate pursuit of my own individuality.
87 All art is quite useless.
88 I have nothing to declare except my genius.
89 We teach people how to remember, we never teach them how to grow.
90 One should absorb the colour of life, but one should never remember its details. Details are always vulgar.
91 The tragedy of the poor is that they can afford nothing but self denial.
92 Experience is a question of instinct about life.
93 She … can talk brilliantly upon any subject provided she knows nothing about it.
94 A gentleman is one who never hurts anyone’s feelings unintentionally.
95 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.
96 Life is too short to learn German.
97 The one charm of the past is that it is the past. But women never know when the curtain has fallen.
98 Wisdom comes with winters.
99 In modern life nothing produces such an effect as a good platitude. It makes the whole world kin.
100 There is nothing in the world like the devotion of a married woman. It is a thing no married man knows anything about.
101 I am jealous of everything whose beauty does not die.
102 She is very clever, too clever for a woman. She lacks the indefinable charm of weakness.
103 Art is the most intense mode of individualism that the world has known.
104 The Book if Life begins with a man and a woman in a garden. It ends with Revelations.
105 Experience is one thing you can’t get for nothing.
106 We women, as someone says, love with our ears, just as you men love with your eyes.
107 I have the simplest tastes. I am always satisfied with the best.
108 All bad art is the result of good intentions.
109 Life! Life the wonderful life that is in you! Let nothing be lost upon you. Be always searching for new sensations. Be afraid of nothing.
110 The true mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible.
111 One’s days were too brief to take the burden of another’s errors on one’s shoulders.
112 I wonder who it was defined man as a rational animal. It was the most premature definition ever given. Man is many things, but he is not rational.
113 My own business always bores me to death; I prefer other people’s.
114 There is nothing so difficult to marry as a large nose.
115 With age comes wisdom, but sometimes age comes alone.
116 A good friend will always stab you in the front.
117 It is perfectly monstrous the way people go about, now-a-days, saying things against one behind one’s back that are absolutely and entirely true.
118 The only difference between a caprice and a lifelong passion is that the caprice lasts a little longer.
119 Create yourself. Be yourself your poem.
120 In old days books were written by men of letters and read by the public. Nowadays books are written by the public and read by nobody.
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