Oscar Wilde Quotes
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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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Wisdom comes with winters.
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There were sins whose fascination was more in the memory than in the doing of them, strange triumphs that gratified the pride more than the passions, and gave to the intellect a quickened sense of joy, greater than any joy they brought, or could ever bring, to the senses.
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I have a dining room done in different shades of white, with white cushions embroidered in yellow silk: the effect is absolutely delightful and the room beautiful.
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I must remember that a good friend is a new world.
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Progress is the realization of utopia.
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Conformity is the last refuge of the unimaginitive.
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The brotherhood of man is not a mere poet’s dream: it is a most depressing and humiliating reality.
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Those who are faithful know only the trivial side of love: it is the faithless who know love's tragedies.
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Arguments are to be avoided: they are always vulgar and often convincing.
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Time is a waste of money.
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What we have to do, what at any rate it is our duty to do, is to revive the old art of Lying.
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It is very vulgar to talk like a dentist when one isn't a dentist. It produces false impression.
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Meredith is a prose Browning, and so is Browning. He used poetry as a medium for writing in prose.
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He who stands most remote from his age is he who mirrors it best.
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Appearance blinds, whereas words reveal.
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The Americans are certainly hero-worshipers, and always take their heroes from the criminal classes.
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I have invented an invaluable permanent invalid called Bunbury, in order that I may be able to go down into the country whenever I choose.
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For life is terribly deficient in form. Its catastrophes happen in the wrong way and to the wrong people. There is a grotesque horror about its comedies, and its tragedies seem to culminate in farce.
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Lean on principles, one day they'll end up giving way.
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America has been discovered before, but it has always been hushed up.
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A live unexamined isn't worth living. I will add, "A life unlived isn't worth examining"
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You know I have loved him always. But we are very poor. Who, being loved, is poor? Oh, no one. I hate my riches. They are a burden...