Oscar Wilde Quotes # 1

"Life imitates art far more than art imitates Life."
Oscar Wilde

"It is through art, and through art only, that we can realize our perfection; through art and art only that we can shield ourselves from the sordid perils of actual existence."
Oscar Wilde

"Consistency is the last refuge of the unimaginative."
Oscar Wilde

"Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months."
Oscar Wilde

"The only excuse for making a useless thing is that one admires it immensely. All art is useless."
Oscar Wilde

"I always pass on good advice. It is the only thing to do with it. It is never of any use to oneself."
Oscar Wilde

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

"One should absorb the colour of life, but one should never remember its details. Details are always vulgar."
Oscar Wilde

"The true mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible."
Oscar Wilde

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

"Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation."
Oscar Wilde

"Every portrait that is painted with feeling is a portrait of the artist, not of the sitter."
Oscar Wilde

"What a pity that in life we only get our lessons when they are of no use to us."
Oscar Wilde

"Nowadays people know the price of everything and the value of nothing."
Oscar Wilde

"A little sincerity is a dangerous thing, and a great deal of it is absolutely fatal."
Oscar Wilde

"I am the only person in the world I should like to know thoroughly."
Oscar Wilde

"I have said to you to speak the truth is a painful thing. To be forced to tell lies is much worse."
Oscar Wilde

"Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth."
Oscar Wilde