3,435 Quotes by Oscar Wilde

...the remembrance even of joy having its bitterness, and the memories of pleasure their pain.

Yes: I am a dreamer. For a dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight, and his punishment is that he sees the dawn before the rest of the world.

Oh! it is absurd to have a hard-and-fast rule about what one should read and what one shouldn't. More than half of modern culture depends on what one shouldn't read.

When bankers get together for dinner, they discuss Art. When artists get together for dinner, they discuss Money

Now art should never try to be popular. The public should try to make itself artistic.

Toplumda para hakkında zenginlerden daha fazla düşünen tek bir sınıf vardır, o da fakirler. Fakirler başka hiçbir şey düşünemez. Bu, fakir olmanın ıstırabıdır.

The basis of action is lack of imagination. It is the last resource of those who know not how to dream.

An artist should create beautiful things, but should put nothing of his own life into them.

But while there were times when I rejoiced in the idea that my sufferings were to be endless, I could not bear them to be without meaning. Now I find hidden somewhere away in my nature something that tells me that nothing in the whole world is meaningless, suffering least of all. That something hidden away in my nature, like a treasure in a field, Is Humility.