Oscar Wilde Quotes [Part 2]

“All women become like their mothers. 

That is their tragedy. 

No man does, and that is his.”

“Always forgive your enemies; 

nothing annoys them so much.”

"Ambition is the last refuge of failure."

"America had often been discovered before Columbus, 

but it had always been hushed up."

"America is the only country that went from barbarism

 to decadence without civilization in between."

"An acquaintance that begins with a compliment

 is sure to develop into a real friendship."

"An ordinary man away from home giving advice."

"And the wild regrets, 

and the bloody sweats, 

none knew so well as I: 

for he who lives more lives than one 

more deaths than one must die."

"Anybody can be good in the country. 

There are no temptations there."

"Anybody can make history. 

Only a great man can write it."

“Anybody can sympathise with the sufferings of a friend, 

but it requires a very fine nature to sympathise with a friend’s success.”

"Anybody can write a three-volume novel. 

It merely requires a complete ignorance of both life and literature."

“Anyone who lives within their means suffers from a lack of imagination.”

"Arguments are to be avoided; 
they are always vulgar and often convincing."

"Art is not to be taught in Academies. 

It is what one looks at, 

not what one listens to, 

that makes the artist. 

The real schools should be the streets"

"Art, like Nature, has her monsters, 
things of bestial shape and with hideous voices"

"As a wicked man I am a complete failure. 

Why, there are lots of people who say 

I have never really done anything wrong 
in the whole course of my life. 
Of course they only say it behind my back."

"As for begging, it is safer to beg than to take, 

but it is finer to take than to beg."

"As for the virtuous poor, one can pity them, 

of course, but one cannot possibly admire them. 

They have made private terms with the enemy, 

and sold their birthright for very bad pottage. 

They must also be extraordinarily stupid."

"As long as a woman can look ten years 

younger than her own daughter, 

she is perfectly satisfied."

"As long as war is regarded as wicked, 

it will always have it's fascination. 

When it is looked upon as vulgar, 

it will cease to be popular."

"As one knows the poet by his fine music, 

so one can recognize the liar 
by his rich rhythmic utterance, 

and in neither case will the casual inspiration
 of the moment suffice. 

Here, as elsewhere, practice must precede perfection."

"At twilight, nature is not without loveliness, 

though perhaps its chief use is to illustrate quotations from the poets."

"Bad art is a great deal worse than no art at all."

"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."