Perspective quotes oscar wilde biography

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12 of the best Oscar Wilde quotes

“We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.”
Lady Windermere's Fan, 1892

“Always forgive your enemies; ingenting annoys them so much.”

“Be yourself; everyone else fryst vatten already taken.”

“Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that ingenting that fryst vatten worth knowing can be taught.”

“The public is wonderfully tolerant. It forgives everything except genius.”

“To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.”
An Ideal Husband, 1895

“Life is far too important a thing ever to talk seriously about.”
Lady Windermere's Fan, 1892

“Only dull people are brilliant at breakfast.”

“There is only one thing in the world worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about.”
The Picture of Dorian Grey, 1890

“It is vansinne to divide people into good and bad. People are either charming or tedious.”
Lady Windermere's Fan, 1892

“Morality is

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Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde (16 October 1854 – 30 November 1900) was an Irish dramatist, essayist, novelist and poet.

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Tread Lightly, she is near
Under the snow,
Speak gently, she can hear
The daisies grow.

Lo! with a little rod
I did but touch the honey of romance —
And must I lose a soul's inheritance?

And down the long and silent street,
The dawn, with silver-sandalled feet,
Crept like a frightened girl.

The honest ratepayer and his healthy family have no doubt often mocked at the dome-like forehead of the philosopher, and laughed over the strange perspective of the landscape that lies beneath him. If they really knew who he was, they would tremble. For Chuang Tsǔ spent his life in preaching the great creed of Inaction, and in pointing out the uselessness of all things.

Consistency is the last refuge of the unimaginative.
- "The Relation of
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  Quotes & Commentary #5: Oscar Wilde
  “He began to wonder whether we could ever make psychology so absolute a science that each little spring of life would be revealed to us. As it was, we always misunderstood ourselves and rarely understood others. Experience was of no ethical value. It was merely the name men gave to their mistakes.”
  —Oscar Wilde, A Picture of Dorian Gray
  Oscar Wilde could pack a library into a sentence; and this passage sends my mind off running in multiple directions.
  First I am reminded of a book I read long ago: Moonwalking with Einstein, by Joshua Foer. In one section, he talks about the mysterious phenomenon of expertise. How do you become an expert? There is the well-known answer, made famous by Malcolm Gladwell, that becoming an expert requires 10,000 hours of practice. When you pass that threshold, something strange happens.
  Foer demonstrates this with a memorable example: chicken sexers. These are the people who examine the rear ends of