Top 179 Quotes by Oscar Wilde

It is the spectator, and not life, that art really mirrors.

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 better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.

Ridicule is the tribute paid to the genius by the mediocrities.

Romantic art deals with the exception and with the individual. Good people, belonging as they do to the normal, and so, commonplace type, are artistically uninteresting.

There is always something ridiculous about the emotions of people whom one has ceased to love.

I have nothing to declare except my genius.

One should always be in love. That is the reason one should never marry.

There is no sin except stupidity.

There are only two tragedies in life: one is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it.