Oscar Wilde Quotes
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Science can never grapple with the irrational. That is why it has no future before it, in this world.
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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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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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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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I've now realized for the first time in my life the vital Importance of Being Earnest.
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When you really want love you will find it waiting for you.
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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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It is a very sad thing that nowadays there is so little useless information.
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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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No man should have a secret from his wife. She invariably finds it out.
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I may have said the same thing before...but my explanation, I am sure, will always be different.
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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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Learned conversation is either the affectation of the ignorant or the profession of the mentally unemployed.
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Whenever people agree with me I always feel I must be wrong.
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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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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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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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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 travel without my diary. One should always have something sensational to read in the train.
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Life is like a box of terrible analogies...
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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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Pleasure is the test of nature, its approval sign.