Oscar Wilde Quotes
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No publisher should ever express an opinion on the value of what he publishes. That is a matter entirely for the literary critic to decide. I can quite understand how any ordinary critic would be strongly prejudiced against a work that was accompanied by a premature and unnecessary panegyric from the publisher. A publisher is simply a useful middle-man. It is not for him to anticipate the verdict of criticism.
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When one pays a visit it is for the purpose of wasting other people's time, not one's own.
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We live in an age when unnecessary things are our only necessities.
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Something was dead in each of us,And what was dead was Hope.
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The world has grown suspicious of anything that looks like a happily married life.
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The emotions of man are stirred more quickly than man’s intelligence.
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Love is easily killed.
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In love, it is better to know and be disappointed, than to not know and always wonder.
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My own business always bores me to death. I prefer other people's.
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There is no man who is not, at each moment, what he has been and what he will be.
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What men call the shadow of the body is not the shadow of the body, but is the body of the soul.
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The vilest deeds like poison weeds Bloom well in prison air; It is only what is good in man That wastes and withers there; Pale Anguish keeps the heavy gate And the Warder is Despair.
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There are three kinds of despots. There is the despot who tyrannises over the body. There is the despot who tyrannises over the soul. There is the despot who tyrannises over the soul and body alike. The first is called the Prince. The second is called the Pope. The third is called the People.
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You can hardly imagine that I and Lord Bracknell would dream of allowing our only daughter - a girl brought up with the utmost care - to marry into a cloak-room, and form an alliance with a parcel?
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I drink to separate my body from my soul.
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I never approve, or disapprove, of anything now. It is an absurd attitude to take towards life.
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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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Pray don't talk to me about the weather, Mr. Worthing. Whenever people talk to me about the weather, I always feel quite certain that they mean something else. And that makes me quite nervous.
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Life is the art of being well deceived, and to succeed, it must be habitual and uninterrupted.
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If you cannot prove a man wrong, don't panic. You can always call him names.
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I must remember that a good friend is a new world.
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Prayer must never be answered: if it is, it ceases to be prayer and becomes correspondence.
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Yet each man kills the thing he loves from all let this be heard some does it with a bitter look some with a flattering word the coward does it with a kiss the brave man with the sword.
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Where your life leads you, you must go.