Oscar Wilde Be Quotations

Anybody can be good in the country. There are no temptations there.

I hope you have not been leading a double life, pretending to be wicked and being good all the time. That would be hypocrisy.

Knowledge would be fatal. It is the uncertainty that charms one. A mist makes things wonderful.

What the worm was to the corpse, his sins would be to the painted image on the canvas. They would mar its beauty, and eat away its grace. they would defile it, and make it shameful. And yet the thing would still live on. It would be always alive. (Dorian Gray regarding his portrait)

If people were meant to be nude, they would have been born this way.

To be good is to be in harmony with oneself. Discord is to be forced to be in harmony with others.

The truth is rarely pure and never simple. Modern life would be very tedious if it were either, and modern literature a complete impossibility!

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

There was so much in you that charmed me that I felt I must tell you something about yourself. I thought how tragic it would be if you were wasted.

Life would be dull without them.

If the poor only had profiles there would be no difficulty in solving the problem of poverty

If God wished to punish us, all he would need to do would be to answer our prayers.

To be good is to be in harmony with one's self.