Oscar Wilde Quotes
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A mask tells us more than a face.
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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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The man with a clear conscience probably has a poor memory.
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I like talking to a brick wall- it's the only thing in the world that never contradicts me!
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One of the many lessons that one learns in prison is, that things are what they are and will be what they will be.
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In modern life nothing produces such an effect as a good platitude. It makes the whole world kin.
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After the first glass you see things as you wish they were. After the second glass you see things as they are not. Finally, you see things as they really are, and that is the most horrible thing in the world.
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Something was dead in each of us,And what was dead was Hope.
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To begin with, I dined there on Monday, and once a week is quite enough to dine with one's own relations.
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Crying is the refuge of plain women but the ruin of pretty ones.
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Every one is worthy of love, except him who thinks that he is. Love is a sacrament that should be taken kneeling.
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Suffering is one very long moment. We cannot divide it by seasons. We can only record its moods, and chronicle their return. With us time itself does not progress. It revolves. It seems to circle round one center of pain.
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Spontaneity is a meticulously prepared art.
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The emotions of man are stirred more quickly than man’s intelligence.
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He was a hero to his valet, who bullied him, and a terror to most of his relations, whom he bullied in turn. Only England could have produced him, and he always said that the country was going to the dogs. His principles were out of date, but there was a good deal to be said for his prejudices.
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If we men married the women we deserved, we should have a very bad time of it.
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I can believe anything as long as it is incredible.
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The worst thing to do with success, is to boast about it.
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Things last either too long, or not long enough.
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Sooner or later we have all to pay for what we do.
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As for begging, it is safer to beg than to take, but it is finer to take than to beg.
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Illusion is the first of all pleasures.
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Any place you love is the world to you.
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When one pays a visit it is for the purpose of wasting other people's time, not one's own.