Oscar Wilde Quotes
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No man should have a secret from his wife. She invariably finds it out.
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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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It is a very sad thing that nowadays there is so little useless information.
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Pleasure is the test of nature, its approval sign.
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A map of the world that does not include Utopia is not worth even glancing at, for it leaves out the one country at which Humanity is always landing.
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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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There was so much in you that charmed me that I felt I must tell you something about yourself. I thought how tragic it would be if you were wasted.
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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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Her capacity for family affection is extraordinary. When her third husband died, her hair turned quite gold from grief.
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I never play cricket. It requires one to assume such indecent postures.
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Life is like a box of terrible analogies...
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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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The only people I would care to be with now are artists and people who have suffered: those who know what beauty is, and those who know what sorrow is: nobody else interests me.
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But what of life whose bitter hungry sea Flows at our heels, and gloom of sunless night Covers the days which never more return? Ambition, love and all the thoughts that burn We lose too soon, and only find delight In withered husks of some dead memory.
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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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It is not good for one's morals to see bad acting.
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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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And her sweet red lips on these lips of mine Burned like the ruby fire set In the swinging lamp of a crimson shrine, Or the bleeding wounds of the pomegranate, Or the heart of the lotus drenched and wet With the spilt-out blood of the rose-red wine.
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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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It is absurd to have a hard and fast rule about what one should read and what one shouldn't. More than half of modern culture depends on what one shouldn't read.
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A man's life is of more value than a woman's. It has larger issues, wider scope, greater ambitions. Our lives revolve in curves of emotions. It is upon lines of intellect that a man's life progresses. I have just learnt this, and much else with it, from Lord Goring. And I will not spoil your life for you, nor see you spoil it as a sacrifice to me, a useless sacrifice.
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Whenever people agree with me I always feel I must be wrong.
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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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Nature constantly imitates art.