Oscar Wilde Quotes
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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...
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Oh, brothers! I don't care for brothers. My elder brother won't die, and my younger brothers seem never to do anything else.
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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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Ah! That must be Aunt Augusta. Only relatives, or creditors, ever ring in that Wagnerian manner.
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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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He who stands most remote from his age is he who mirrors it best.
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Whenever people agree with me I always feel I must be wrong.
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Would you be in any way offended if I said that you seem to me to be in every way the visible personification of absolute perfection?
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I have nothing to declare but my genius, and this four-kilo bag of cocaine.
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I never travel without my diary. One should always have something sensational to read in the train.
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How marriage ruins a man! It is as demoralizing as cigarettes, and far more expensive.
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The dim roar of London was like the bourdon note of a distant organ.
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I never saw so many well-dressed, well-fed, business-looking Bohemians in my life.
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Memory is the diary that chronicles things that never happened or couldn't possibly have happened.
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Ah, nowadays we are all of us so hard up, that the only pleasant things to pay are compliments. They're the only things we can pay.
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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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A virtuous abstinence from the joys of pederasty comes most easily to those who have no taste for it.
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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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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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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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If you want to be witty, say what you think at all times.
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I have met a lot of hardboiled eggs in my time, but you're twenty minutes.
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Man can believe the impossible, but man can never believe the improbable.