Oscar Wilde Quotes
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The dim roar of London was like the bourdon note of a distant organ.
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Man can believe the impossible, but man can never believe the improbable.
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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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Conformity is the last refuge of the unimaginitive.
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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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Yes, very sensible... People die of common sense, Dorian, one lost moment at a time. Life is a moment. There is no hereafter. So make it burn always with the hardest flame.
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I must remember that a good friend is a new world.
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I have met a lot of hardboiled eggs in my time, but you're twenty minutes.
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Arguments are to be avoided: they are always vulgar and often convincing.
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How marriage ruins a man! It is as demoralizing as cigarettes, and far more expensive.
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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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A live unexamined isn't worth living. I will add, "A life unlived isn't worth examining"
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The British cook, for her iniquities, is a foolish woman who should be turned into a pillar of salt which she never knows how to use.
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The only way to atone for being occasionally a little over-dressed is by being always absolutely over-educated.
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Science can never grapple with the irrational. That is why it has no future before it, in this world.
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I have nothing to declare but my genius, and this four-kilo bag of cocaine.
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He who stands most remote from his age is he who mirrors it best.
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Only mediocrities progress. An artist revolves in a cycle of masterpieces, the first of which is no less perfect than the last.
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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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Grass is hard and lumpy and damp, and full of dreadful black insects.
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Newspapers. . . give us the bald, sordid, disgusting facts of life. They chronicle, with degrading avidity, the sins of the second-rate, and with the conscientiousness of the illiterate give us accurate and prosaic details. . .
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Memory is the diary that chronicles things that never happened or couldn't possibly have happened.
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I never saw so many well-dressed, well-fed, business-looking Bohemians in my life.