Oscar Wilde

Absolute catholicity of taste is not without its dangers. It is only an auctioneer who should admire all schools of art.

Oscar Wilde

Actions are the first tragedy in life, words are the second. Words are perhaps the worst. Words are merciless…

Oscar Wilde

Aestheticism is a search after the signs of the beautiful. It is the science of the beautiful through which men seek the correlation of the arts. It is, to speak more exactly, the search after the secret of life.

Oscar Wilde

After a good dinner one can forgive anybody, even one’s own relations.

Oscar Wilde

After playing Chopin, I feel as if I had been weeping over sins that I had never committed and mourning over tragedies that were not my own.

Oscar Wilde

After the first glass, you see things as you wish they were. After the second, you see things as they are not. Finally, you see things as they really are, and that is the most horrible thing in the world.

Oscar Wilde

Ah, on what little things does happiness depend! I have read all that the wise men have written, and all the secrets of philosophy are mine, yet for want of a red rose is my life made wretched.

Oscar Wilde

Ah, on what little things does happiness depend.

Oscar Wilde

Alcohol, taken in sufficient quantities, may produce all the effects of drunkenness.

Oscar Wilde

All art is at once surface and symbol. Those who go beneath the surface do so at their peril.

Oscar Wilde