Oscar Wilde Quotes
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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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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 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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The bright dawn flooded the room, and swept the fantastic shadows into dusky corners, where they lay shuddering.
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When you really want love you will find it waiting for you.
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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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Some temptations are so great it takes great courage to yield to them.
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It is a very sad thing that nowadays there is so little useless information.
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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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I never play cricket. It requires one to assume such indecent postures.
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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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Man can believe the impossible, but man can never believe the improbable.
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The only form of lying that is absolutely beyond reproach is lying for its own sake.
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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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No man should have a secret from his wife. She invariably finds it out.
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The world belongs to the discontented.
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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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How marriage ruins a man! It is as demoralizing as cigarettes, and far more expensive.
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A well-tied tie is the first serious step in life.
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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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It is not good for one's morals to see bad acting.
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Life is like a box of terrible analogies...
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Grass is hard and lumpy and damp, and full of dreadful black insects.
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Ah! That must be Aunt Augusta. Only relatives, or creditors, ever ring in that Wagnerian manner.