Oscar Wilde Quotes
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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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If you cannot prove a man wrong, don't panic. You can always call him names.
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St. Paul's Loomed like a bubble o'er the town.
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Time is a waste of money.
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All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That's his.
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I hope you hair curls naturally, does it? Yes, darling, with a little help from others.
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There should be a law that no ordinary newspaper should be allowed to write about art. The harm they do by their foolish and random writing it would be impossible to overestimate - not to the artist, but to the public, blinding them to all but harming the artist not at all.
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Where there is no love there is no understanding.
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I am a man of simple pleasures. The best suits me perfectly.
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I think life too complex a thing to be settled by these hard and fast rules.
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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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Love! What is love? It's nothing. It's just a word. It doesn't exist. Only pleasure is important.
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Schools should be the most beautiful place in every town and village-so beautiful that the punishment for undutiful children should be barred from going to school the following day.
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To get back to my youth I would do anything in the world, except take exercise, get up early, or be respectable.
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Two men look out a window. One sees mud, the other sees the stars.
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What a fuss people make about fidelity! Why, even in love it is purely a question for physiology. It has nothing to do with our own will. Young men want to be faithful, and are not; old men want to be faithless, and cannot: that is all one can say.
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Young people, nowadays, imagine that money is everything. Yes, murmured Lord Henry, settling his button-hole in his coat; and when they grow older they know it.
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Some temptations are so great it takes great courage to yield to them.
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I am but too conscious of the fact that we are born in an age when only the dull are treated seriously, and I live in terror of not being misunderstood. Don't degrade me into the position of giving you useful information. Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.
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When you really want love you will find it waiting for you.
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Arguments are to be avoided: they are always vulgar and often convincing.
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Memory is the diary that chronicles things that never happened or couldn't possibly have happened.
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A virtuous abstinence from the joys of pederasty comes most easily to those who have no taste for it.
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The bright dawn flooded the room, and swept the fantastic shadows into dusky corners, where they lay shuddering.