620 Quotations by Oscar Wilde
- 501. The tragedy of old age is not that one is old, but that one is young.
- 502. The true critic is he who bears within himself the dreams and ideas and feelings of myriad generatio ...
- 503. The true mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible.
- 504. The true perfection of man lies, not in what man has, but in what man is...Nothing should be able to ...
- 505. The truth is rarely pure and never simple.
- 506. The typewriting machine, when played with expression, is no more annoying than the piano when played ...
- 507. The ugly and the stupid have the best of it in this world. They can sit at their ease and gape at th ...
- 508. The value of an idea has nothing whatever to do with the sincerity of the man who expresses it.
- 509. The very essence of love is uncertainty.
- 510. The way of paradoxes is the way of truth. To test Reality we must see it on the tight-rope. When the ...
- 511. The well-bred contradict other people. The wise contradict themselves.
- 512. The whole theory of modern education is radically unsound. Fortunately in England, at any rate, educ ...
- 513. The world has grown suspicious of anything that looks like a happily married life.
- 514. The world is a stage, but the play is badly cast.
- 515. The worst form of tyranny the world has ever known the tyranny of the weak over the strong. It is th ...
- 516. The youth of America is their oldest tradition. It has been going on now for three hundred years.
- 517. There are many things that we would throw away if we were not afraid that others might pick them up.
- 518. There are only two kinds of people who are really fascinating -- people who know absolutely everythi ...
- 519. There are three kinds of despots. There is the despot who tyrannizes over the body. There is the des ...
- 520. There are two ways of disliking poetry; one way is to dislike it, the other is to read Pope.
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