Oscar Wilde Quotes
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No better way is there to learn to love Nature than to understand Art. It dignifies every flower of the field. And, the boy who sees the thing of beauty which a bird on the wing becomes when transferred to wood or canvas will probably not throw the customary stone.
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Wisdom comes with winters.
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Conformity is the last refuge of the unimaginitive.
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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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Two men look out a window. One sees mud, the other sees the stars.
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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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The brotherhood of man is not a mere poet’s dream: it is a most depressing and humiliating reality.
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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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Married men are horribly tedious when they are good husbands, and abominably conceited when they are not.
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I never saw so many well-dressed, well-fed, business-looking Bohemians in my life.
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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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America has been discovered before, but it has always been hushed up.
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Time is a waste of money.
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Progress is the realization of utopia.
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He who stands most remote from his age is he who mirrors it best.
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St. Paul's Loomed like a bubble o'er the town.
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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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Arguments are to be avoided: they are always vulgar and often convincing.
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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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If you want to be witty, say what you think at all times.
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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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It is very vulgar to talk like a dentist when one isn't a dentist. It produces false impression.
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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...