Quotes from Oscar Wilde

The terror of society, which is the basis of morals, the terror of God, which is the secret of religion-these are the two things that govern us.

The universe is God. I am God so that means I am the universe.

Everyone may not be good, but there's always something good in everyone. Never judge anyone shortly because every saint has a past and every sinner has a future.

A dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight.

I must remember that a good friend is a new world.

To be good is to be in harmony with oneself. Discord is to be forced to be in harmony with others.

And if it feels good... Feel it!

Good intentions are invariably ungrammatical.

One can survive everything, nowadays, except death, and live down everything except a good reputation.

Only good questions deserve good answers.

I am not in favour of this modern mania for turning bad people into good people at a moment's notice.

Do you know that I am afraid that good people do a great deal of harm in this world? Certainly the greatest harm they do is that they make badness of such extraordinary importance.

To be good is to be in harmony with one's self.

The only artists I have ever known who are personally delightful are bad artists. Good artists exist simply in what they make, and consequently are perfectly uninteresting in what they are.

There is only good art and mediocre art.

After a good quality dinner one will be able to forgive anybody, still one's own relations.

All bad art is the result of good intentions.

The form of government that is most suitable to the artist is no government at all. Authority over him and his art is ridiculous.

Nothing worth knowing can be taught.

The moment you think you understand a great work of art, it's dead for you.

The great poet is always a seer, seeing less with the eyes of the body than he does with the eyes of the mind.

Anybody can sympathise with all the sufferings of the pal, nevertheless it involves an extremely great mother nature to sympathise by using a friend's achievement.

To do nothing at all is the most difficult thing in the world, the most difficult and the most intellectual.

With freedom, books, flowers, and the moon, who could not be happy?