Oscar Wilde Quotes
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Well, I don't like your clothes. You look perfectly ridiculous in them. Why on earth don't you go up and change? It's perfectly childish to be in mourning for a man who is actually staying a whole week with you in your house as a guest. I call it grotesque.
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All art is at once surface and symbol. Those who go beneath the surface do so at their peril. Those who read the symbol do so at their peril. It is the spectator, and not life, that art really mirrors. Diversity of opinion about a work of art shows that the work is new, complex and vital.
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Spontaneity is a meticulously prepared art.
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'Know thyself' was written over the portal of the antique world. Over the portal of the new world, 'Be thyself' shall be written.
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Art finds her own perfection within, and not outside of herself. She is not to be judged by any external standard of resemblance. She is a veil, rather than a mirror.
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Experience is a question of instinct about life.
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Learn to differentiate between ignorance and stupidity.
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Nothing can cure the soul but the senses, just as nothing can cure the senses but the soul.
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My experience is that as soon as people are old enough to know better, they don't know anything at all.
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Life is not governed by will or intention. Life is a question of nerves, and fibres, and slowly built-up cells in which thought hides itself and passion has its dreams.
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The man with a clear conscience probably has a poor memory.
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While we look to the dramatist to give romance to realism, we ask of the actor to give realism to romance.
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True love is just like regular love, but with more truth.
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Lo! with a little rodI did but touch the honey of romance -And must I lose a soul's inheritance?
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Every single work of art is the fulfillment of a prophecy; for every work of art is the conversion of an idea into an image.
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To give and not expect return, that is what lies at the heart of love.
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The face of the enemy frightens me only when I see how much it resembles me.
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Each of the professions means a prejudice. The necessity for a career forces every one to take sides. We live in the age of the overworked, and the under-educated; the age in which people are so industrious that they become absolutely stupid.
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My wish isn't to mean everything to everyone but something to someone.
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Every woman is a rebel, and usually in wild revolt against herself.
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A woman who cannot make her mistakes charming, is only a female.
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Sympathy with joy intensifies the sum of sympathy in the world, sympathy with pain does not really diminish the amount of pain.
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Insincerity is merely a method by which we can multiply our personalities.
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Many people become bankrupt through having invested too heavily in the prose of life. To have ruined one's self over poetry is an honor.