Oscar Wilde Good Quotations

A dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight, and his punishment is that he sees the dawn before the rest of the world.

The only thing to do with good advice is to pass it on. It is never of any use to oneself.

The mark of all good art is not that the thing done is done exactly or finely, for machinery may do as much, but that it is worked out with the head and the workman's heart.

Bad people are, from the point of view of art, fascinating studies. They represent colour, variety and strangeness. Good people exasperate one's reason; bad people stir one's imagination.

Romantic art deals with the exception and with the individual. Good people, belonging as they do to the normal, and so, commonplace type, are artistically uninteresting.

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

Of course the music is a great difficulty. You see, if one plays good music, people don't listen, and if one plays bad music people don't talk.

One is absolutely sickened, not by the crimes that the wicked have committed, but by the punishments that the good have inflicted; and a community is infinitely more brutalized by the habitual employment of punishment than it is by the occasional occurrence of crime.

Good artists exist simply in what they make, and consequently are perfectly uninteresting in what they are.

It is better to be beautiful than to be good, but it is better to be good than to be ugly.

To make a good salad is to be a brilliant diplomatist -- the problem is entirely the same in both cases. To know exactly how much oil one must put with one's vinegar.

Wickedness is a myth invented by good people to account for the curious attraction of others.

When we are happy we are always good, but when we are good we are not always happy.

Really, if the lower orders don't set us a good example, what on earth is the use of them? They seem, as a class, to have absolutely no sense of moral responsibility.

A truly good woman comes in only two types: One who knows nothing and the other who knows everything.

Nothing produces such an effect as a good platitude

They are horribly tedious when they are good husbands, and abominably conceited when they are not.

Good taste is the excuse I have given for leading such a bad life.

The longer I live, Dorian, the more keenly I feel that whatever was good enough for our fathers is not good enough for us. In art, as in politics, les grand-pères ont toujours tort.

Good intentions are invariably ungrammatical.

I must remember that a good friend is a new world.

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

I can resist everything except temptation.

And if it feels good... Feel it!

A dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight.

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

Only good questions deserve good answers.

The only artists I have ever known who are personally delightful are bad artists. Good artists exist simply in what they make, and consequently are perfectly uninteresting in what they are.

All bad art is the result of good intentions.

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

There is only good art and mediocre art.

The longer I live the more keenly I feel that whatever was good enough for our fathers is not good enough for us.

A good friend will always stab you in the front.