Quotes from Oscar Wilde

My wallpaper and I are fighting a duel to the death. One or the other of us has to go.

I write because it gives me the greatest possible artistic pleasure to write. If my work pleases the few I am gratified. As for the mob, I have no desire to be a popular novelist. It is far too easy.

As for omens, there is no such thing as an omen. Destiny does not send us heralds. She is too wise or too cruel for that.

Each class preaches the importance of those virtues it need not exercise. The rich harp on the value of thrift, the idle grow eloquent over the dignity of labor.

Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.

Schools should be the most beautiful place in every town and village-so beautiful that the punishment for undutiful children should be barred from going to school the following day.

Genius lasts longer than Beauty. That accounts for the fact that we all take such pains to over-educate ourselves.

A process which makes one rogue cleverer than another.

Education is an admirable thing.

The true critic is he who bears within himself the dreams and ideas and feelings of myriad generations, and to whom no form of thought is alien, no emotional impulse obscure.

Experience is the name so many people give to their mistakes.

Thinking is wonderful, but the experience is even more wonderful.

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

My experience is that as soon as people are old enough to know better, they don't know anything at all.

The only way to even approach doing something perfectly is through experience, and experience is the name everyone gives to their mistakes.

I am not at all cynical, I have merely got experience, which, however, is very much the same thing.

Experience is the name we give to our mistakes.

Failure is only the name that we give to our mistakes."-Oscar Wilde

Scepticism is the beginning of Faith.

The things one feels absolutely certain about are never true. That is the fatality of faith, and the lesson of romance.

I can believe anything provided it is incredible.

The true mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible.

In this world there are only two tragedies. One is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it.

It is only through Art and through Art only that we can realize our perfection; Through Art and art only that we can shield ourselves from the sordid perils of actual existence.