The public have an insatiable curiosity to know everything, except what is worth knowing.
Oscar Wilde
Irish
About Oscar Wilde
Irish poet and playwright known for The Picture of Dorian Gray and for the wit of his plays and public persona.
Quotes by Oscar Wilde
It is through art, and through art only, that we can realise our perfection.
The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame.
Beauty is a form of Truth—and Truth, for the artist, is a form of Beauty.
A cynic is a man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing.
What is the point of being alive if you don't at least try to do something remarkable?
The soul is born old but grows young. That is the comedy of life.
Beauty is a form of Genius — is higher, indeed, than Genius, as it needs no explanation.
Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live, it is asking others to live as one wishes to live.
The world is full of obvious things which nobody by any chance ever observes.
The only thing to do with good advice is to pass it on. It is never of any use to oneself.
To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.
We are all of us in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.