Top 179 Quotes by Oscar Wilde

Success is a science; if you have the conditions, you get the result.

In modern life nothing produces such an effect as a good platitude. It makes the whole world kin.

All bad poetry springs from genuine feeling.

I can stand brute force, but brute reason is quite unbearable. There is something unfair about its use. It is hitting below the intellect.

It is only the modern that ever becomes old-fashioned.

I have nothing to declare except my genius.

Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing.

Beauty is the only thing that time cannot harm. Philosophies fall away like sand, creeds follow one another, but what is beautiful is a joy for all seasons, a possession for all eternity.

I would have a workshop attached to every school, and one hour a day given up to the teaching of simple decorative arts. It would be a golden hour to the children.

London is too full of fogs and serious people. Whether the fogs produce the serious people, or whether the serious people produce the fogs, I don't know.