Quote

Because sometimes you have to do something bad to do something good.

Oscar Wilde

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Oscar Wilde
Age: 46 †
Born: 1854
Born: October 16
Died: 1900
Died: November 30
Author
Essayist
Journalist
Novelist
Opinion Journalist
Playwright
Poet
Prosaist
Short Story Writer
Writer
Dublin city
Oscar O'Flahertie Wills Wilde
Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde
Sometimes
Something
Good
Life

More quotes by Oscar Wilde

Image
I have the kiss of Walt Whitman still on my lips
Oscar Wilde
Image
Scandal is gossip made tedious by morality.
Oscar Wilde
Image
Nature, which makes nothing durable, always repeats itself so that nothing which it makes may be lost.
Oscar Wilde
Image
Yes poor Bunbury is a dreadful invalid. Well, I must say, Algernon, that I think it is high time that Mr. Bunbury made up his mind whether he was going to live or to die. This shillyshallying with the question is absurd.
Oscar Wilde
Image
Questions are never indiscreet, answers sometimes are.
Oscar Wilde
Image
The key to making up Oscar Wilde quotes is to add '~ Oscar Wilde' at the end.
Oscar Wilde
Image
Nothing, indeed, is more dangerous to the young artist than any conception of ideal beauty: he is constantly led by it either into weak prettiness or lifeless abstraction: whereas to touch the ideal at all you must not strip it of vitality. You must find it in life and re-create it in art.
Oscar Wilde
Image
Fantastic shadows of birds
Oscar Wilde
Image
Young men want to be faithful, and are not. Old men want to be faithless, and cannot.
Oscar Wilde
Image
The morality of art consists in the perfect use of an imperfect medium.
Oscar Wilde
Image
Be happy, be happy you shall have your red rose. I will build it out of music by moonlight, and stain it with my own heart's-blood. All that I ask of you in return is that you will be a true lover, for Love is wiser than Philosophy, though she is wise, and mightier than Power, though he is mighty.
Oscar Wilde
Image
Newspapers. . . give us the bald, sordid, disgusting facts of life. They chronicle, with degrading avidity, the sins of the second-rate, and with the conscientiousness of the illiterate give us accurate and prosaic details. . .
Oscar Wilde
Image
Those who find beautiful meanings in beautiful things are the cultivated. For these there is hope. They are the elect to whom beautiful things mean only beauty.
Oscar Wilde
Image
The moment that an artist takes notice of what other people want, and tries to supply the demand, he ceases to be an artist.
Oscar Wilde
Image
Bad artists always admire each other's work. They call it being large-minded and free from prejudice. But a truly great artist cannot conceive of life being shown, or beauty fashioned, under any conditions other than those he has selected.
Oscar Wilde
Image
Through our sunless lanes creeps Poverty with her hungry eyes, and Sin with his sodden face follows close behind her. Misery wakes us in the morning and Shame sits with us at night.
Oscar Wilde
Image
The one person who has more illusions than the dreamer is the man of action.
Oscar Wilde
Image
Every thing to be true must become a religion.
Oscar Wilde
Image
Tread Lightly, she is near Under the snow, Speak gently, she can hear The daisies grow.
Oscar Wilde
Image
Psycholog­y is in its infancy, as a science. I hope in the interests of Art, it will always remain so.
Oscar Wilde