Oscar Wilde Quotes
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Somehow life is bigger after all Than any painted angel could we see The God that is within us!
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The secret of life is in art.
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Nature constantly imitates art.
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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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Everything in moderation, including moderation.
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Appearance blinds, whereas words reveal.
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The evil that machinery is doing is not merely in the consequence of its work but in the fact that it makes men themselves machines also.
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Disobedience, in the eyes of any one who has read history, is man's original virtue. It is through disobedience that progress has been made, through disobedience and through rebellion.
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Progress is the realization of utopia.
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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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To many, no doubt, he will seem to be somewhat blatant and bumptious, but we prefer to regard him as being simply British.
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The criminal classes are so close to us that even the policemen can see them...
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No better way is there to learn to love Nature than to understand Art. It dignifies every flower of the field. And, the boy who sees the thing of beauty which a bird on the wing becomes when transferred to wood or canvas will probably not throw the customary stone.
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Society, civilized society at least, is never very ready to believe anything to the detriment of those who are both rich and fascinating. It feels instinctively that manners are of more importance than morals, and, in its opinion, the highest respectability is of much less value than the possession of a good chef.
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There are few of us who have not sometimes wakened before dawn, either after one of those dreamless nights that make one almost enamoured of death, or one of those nights of horror and misshapen joy, when through the chambers of the brain sweep phantoms more terrible than reality itself, and instinct with that vivid life that lurks in all grotesques, and that lends to Gothic art its enduring vitality, this art being, one might fancy, especially the art of those whose minds have been troubled with the malady of reverie.
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When private property is abolished there will be no necessity for crime, no demand for it; it will cease to exist.
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Let me be dressed as I will, yet flies worms and flowers exceed me still.
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Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself would say that it had merely been detected.
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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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Her capacity for family affection is extraordinary. When her third husband died, her hair turned quite gold from grief.
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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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All charming people, I fancy, are spoiled. It is the secret of their attraction.
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You are Beautiful when you are happy.
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To have friends, you know, one need only be good-natured; but when a man has no enemy left there must be something mean about him.