Oscar Wilde

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

Oscar Wilde

Genius learns from nature, its own nature. Talent learns from art.

Oscar Wilde

Give a man a mask and he will show his true face.

Oscar Wilde

Give children beauty, not the record of bloody slaughters and barbarous brawls, as they call history, or of the latitude and longitude of places nobody cares to visit, as they call geography.

Oscar Wilde

Give me the luxuries and I can dispense with the necessities.

Oscar Wilde

God and other artists are always a little obscure.

Oscar Wilde

Good resolutions are simply checks that men draw on a bank where they have no account.

Oscar Wilde

Hard work is amply the refuge of those who have nothing to do.

Oscar Wilde

He is fond of being misunderstood. It gives him a post of vantage.

Oscar Wilde

He is really not so ugly after all, provided, of course, that one shuts one’s eyes, and does not look at him.

Oscar Wilde