Quotes from Oscar Wilde

The smallest act of kindness is worth more than the grandest intention.

The best way to enjoy your job is to imagine yourself without one.

I am sick to death of cleverness. Everybody is clever nowadays. You can't go anywhere without meeting clever people. The thing has become an absolute public nuisance. I wish to goodness we had a few fools left. ALGERNON: We have. JACK: I should extremely like to meet them. What do they talk about? ALGERNON: The fools? Oh! about the clever people of course. JACK: What fools.

Mere color, unspoiled by meaning, and unallied with definite form, can speak to the soul in a thousand different ways.

I find I have, and a heart doesn't suit me, Windermere. Somehow it doesn't go with modern dress. It makes one look old.

We degenerate into hideous puppets, haunted by the memory of the passions of which we were too much afraid, and the exquisite temptations that we had not the courage to yield to. Youth! Youth! There is absolutely nothing in the world but youth!

The man who sees both sides of a question is a man who sees absolutely nothing.

One's real life is so often the life that one does not lead.

I have pleasures, and passions, but the joy of life is gone. I am going under: the morgue yawns for me. I go and look at my zinc-bed there. After all, I had a wonderful life, which is, I fear, over.

To cure the soul by means of the senses, and the senses by means of the soul.

Nothing spoils romance so much as a sense of humour in the woman.

I've put my genius into my life; I've only put my talent into my works.