In a period like ours, inventing absolutely nothing is an act of pure genius. And, in a commercial period like ours, it indicates considerable physical strength.
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The best quotes by Oscar Wilde
The philistine component in life isn't the incompetence in understanding art. Charming people like fishermen, sherperds, plowers, peasants and likewise no nothing of art and they are the real salt of the earth.
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Nowadays people seem to look on life as a speculation. It is not a speculation. It is a sacrament. Its ideal is Love. Its purification is sacrifice.
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Society, civilized society, at least, is never very ready to believe anything to the detriment of those who are both rich and fascinating. It feels instinctively that manners are of more importance than morals, and, in its opinion, the highest respectability is of much less value than the possession of a good chef. And, after all, it is a very poor consolation to be told that the man who has given one a bad dinner, or poor wine, is irreproachable in his private life. Even the cardinal virtues cannot atone for half-cold entrees.
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The man who can dominate a London dinner-table can dominate the world. The future belongs to the dandy. It is the exquisites who are going to rule.
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Men know life too early. Women know life too late. That is the difference between men and women.
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There is nothing in the whole world so unbecoming to a woman as a Nonconformist conscience.
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Women love us for our defects. If we have enough of them, they will forgive us everything, even our intellects.
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It is only the superficial qualities that last. Man's deeper nature is soon found out.
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Sins of the flesh are nothing. They are deseases that a physician can cure, if he really must. Sins of the soul are shameful.
from the book "" by Oscar Wilde