Oscar Wilde

Music is the art which is most nigh to tears and memory.

Oscar Wilde

My own business always bores me to death; I prefer other people’s.

Oscar Wilde

Never love anyone who treats you like you’re ordinary.

Oscar Wilde

Never marry at all, Dorian. Men marry because they are tired, women, because they are curious: both are disappointed.

Oscar Wilde

No great artist ever sees things as they really are. If he did, he would cease to be an artist.

Oscar Wilde

Nothing can cure the soul but the senses, just as nothing can cure the senses but the soul.

Oscar Wilde

Now and then it is a joy to have one’s table red with wine and roses.

Oscar Wilde

Nowadays most people die of a sort of creeping common sense, and discover when it is too late that the only things one never regrets are one’s mistakes.

Oscar Wilde

Of course the music is a great difficulty. You see, if one plays good music, people don’t listen, and if one plays bad music people don’t talk.

Oscar Wilde

One can always be kind to people about whom one cares nothing.

Oscar Wilde