Oscar Wilde Quotes
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How marriage ruins a man! It is as demoralizing as cigarettes, and far more expensive.
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I never saw so many well-dressed, well-fed, business-looking Bohemians in my life.
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St. Paul's Loomed like a bubble o'er the town.
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A well-tied tie is the first serious step in life.
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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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If you want to be witty, say what you think at all times.
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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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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 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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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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Memory is the diary that chronicles things that never happened or couldn't possibly have happened.
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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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A virtuous abstinence from the joys of pederasty comes most easily to those who have no taste for it.
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Moderation is a fatal thing. Enough is as bad as a meal. More than enough is as good as a feast.
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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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I have nothing to declare but my genius, and this four-kilo bag of cocaine.
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To be good is to be in harmony with oneself. Discord is to be forced to be in harmony with others.
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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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I never put off till tomorrow what I can do the day after.
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Dullness is the coming of age of seriousness.
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I have met a lot of hardboiled eggs in my time, but you're twenty minutes.
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All love is true, but not all truth ... is love?
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The dim roar of London was like the bourdon note of a distant organ.
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Ah! That must be Aunt Augusta. Only relatives, or creditors, ever ring in that Wagnerian manner.