Oscar Wilde Quotes
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A true gentleman is one who is never unintentionally rude.
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She knew nothing but she had everything he had lost.
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Men always want to be a woman's first love. That is their clumsy vanity. We woman have a more subtle instinct about things. What we like is to be a man's last romance.
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To become a spectator of one's own life is to escape the suffering of life.
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All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That's his.
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Circumstances should never alter principles!
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I think it is perfectly natural for any artist to admire intensely and love a young man. It is an incident in the life of almost every artist.
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Religions die when they are proved to be true. Science is the record of dead religions.
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To expect the unexpected shows a thoroughly modern intellect.
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And the wild regrets, and the bloody sweats,None knew so well as I:For he who lives more lives than oneMore deaths than one must die.
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Imitation is the homage mediocrity pays to greatness.
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Conversation should touch everything, but should concentrate itself on nothing.
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Create yourself. Be yourself your poem.
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My dear fellow, the truth isn't quite the sort of thing one tells to a nice, sweet, refined girl.
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I refuse to have a battle of wits with an unarmed man.
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Hesitation of any kind is a sign of mental decay in the young, of physical weakness in the old.
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Bigamy is having one wife too many. Monogamy is the same.
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In its primary aspect, a painting has no more spiritual message than an exquisite fragment of Venetian glass. The channels by which all noble and imaginative work in painting should touch the soul are not those of the truths of lives.
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Loveless marriages are horrible. But there is one thing worse than an absolutely loveless marriage. A marriage in which there is love, but on one side only; faith, but on one side only; devotion, but on one side only, and in which of the two hearts one is sure to be broken.
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To speak frankly, I am not in favour of long engagements. They give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before marriage, which I think is never advisable.
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The artistic life is a long, lovely suicide.
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But I am afraid that we are beginning to be over-educated; at least everybody who is incapable of learning has taken to teaching.
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The aim of the liar is simply to charm, to delight, to give pleasure. He is the very basis of civilized society.
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Is she such a mystery? She is more than a mystery - she is a mood. Moods don't last. It is their chief charm.