3,435 Quotes by Oscar Wilde

The note of the perfect personality is not rebellion, but peace.

Pleasure is the only thing one should live for, nothing ages like happiness.

Art is the only serious thing in the world. And the artist is the only person who is never serious.

Nothing can cure the soul but the senses, just as nothing can cure the senses but the soul.

Every portrait that is painted with feeling is a portrait of the artist, not of the sitter.

All art is quite useless.

If you want to be a grocer, or a general, or a politician, or a judge, you will invariably become it; that is your punishment. If you never know what you want to be, if you live what some might call the dynamic life but what I will call the artistic life, if each day you are unsure of who you are and what you know you will never become anything, and that is your reward.

Art is the most intense mode of individualism that the world has known.

It takes great courage to see the world in all its tainted glory, and still to love it. And even more courage to see it in the one you love