Oscar Wilde Quotes
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I think life too complex a thing to be settled by these hard and fast rules.
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If you want to be witty, say what you think at all times.
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Some temptations are so great it takes great courage to yield to them.
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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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Where there is no love there is no understanding.
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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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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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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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Arguments are to be avoided: they are always vulgar and often convincing.
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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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When you really want love you will find it waiting for you.
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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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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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Love! What is love? It's nothing. It's just a word. It doesn't exist. Only pleasure is important.
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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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St. Paul's Loomed like a bubble o'er the town.
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No man should have a secret from his wife. She invariably finds it out.
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Two men look out a window. One sees mud, the other sees the stars.
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The bright dawn flooded the room, and swept the fantastic shadows into dusky corners, where they lay shuddering.
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Memory is the diary that chronicles things that never happened or couldn't possibly have happened.
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In England, an inventor is regarded almost as a crazy man, and in too many instances, invention ends in disappointment and poverty. In America, an inventor is honoured, help is forthcoming, and the exercise of ingenuity, the application of science to the work of man, is there the shortest road to wealth.
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Man can believe the impossible, but man can never believe the improbable.
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The only form of lying that is absolutely beyond reproach is lying for its own sake.