Oscar Wilde

Relations are simply a tedious pack of people, who haven’t got the remotest knowledge of how to live, nor the smallest instinct about when to die.

Oscar Wilde

Romance should never begin with sentiment. It should begin with science and end with a settlement.

Oscar Wilde

Scandal is gossip made tedious by morality.

Oscar Wilde

Science is the record of dead religions.

Oscar Wilde

Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live, it is asking others to live as one wishes to live.

Oscar Wilde

Seriousness is the only refuge of the shallow.

Oscar Wilde

Some cause happiness wherever they go; others, whenever they go.

Oscar Wilde

Suffering is one very long moment. We cannot divide it by seasons.

Oscar Wilde

Technique is really personality. That is the reason why the artist cannot teach it, why the pupil cannot learn it, and why the aesthetic critic can understand it.

Oscar Wilde

The advantage of the emotions is that they lead us astray, and the advantage of science is that it is not emotional.

Oscar Wilde