Oscar Wilde Quotes
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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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It is a very sad thing that nowadays there is so little useless information.
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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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Some temptations are so great it takes great courage to yield to them.
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The only form of lying that is absolutely beyond reproach is lying for its own sake.
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Man can believe the impossible, but man can never believe the improbable.
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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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I never play cricket. It requires one to assume such indecent postures.
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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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Yet each man kills the thing he loves from all let this be heard some does it with a bitter look some with a flattering word the coward does it with a kiss the brave man with the sword.
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No man should have a secret from his wife. She invariably finds it out.
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Children have a natural antipathy to books - handicraft should be the basis of education. Boys and girls should be taught to use their hands to make something, and they would be less apt to destroy and be mischievous.
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It is not good for one's morals to see bad acting.
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The world belongs to the discontented.
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Life is like a box of terrible analogies...
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The chin a little higher, dear. Style largely depends on the way the chin is worn. They are worn very high, just at present.
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That beauty which is meant by art is no mere accident of human life which people can take or leave, but a positive necessity of life if we are to live as nature meant us to, that is to say unless we are content to be less than men.
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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 live unexamined isn't worth living. I will add, "A life unlived isn't worth examining"
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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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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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Rich bachelors should be heavily taxed. It is not fair that some men should be happier than others.
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You are more to me than any of them has any idea; you are the atmosphere of beauty through which I see life; you are the incarnation of all lovely things...I think of you day and night. ~ Letter to Lord Alfred 'Bosie' Douglas
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Whenever people agree with me I always feel I must be wrong.