Oscar Wilde Quotes
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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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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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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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The bright dawn flooded the room, and swept the fantastic shadows into dusky corners, where they lay shuddering.
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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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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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I think life too complex a thing to be settled by these hard and fast rules.
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The only form of lying that is absolutely beyond reproach is lying for its own sake.
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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 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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The difference between literature and journalism is that journalism is unreadable and literature is not read.
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It is a very sad thing that nowadays there is so little useless information.
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Where there is no love there is no understanding.
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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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When you really want love you will find it waiting for you.
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No man should have a secret from his wife. She invariably finds it out.
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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 link between Literature and the Drama left to us in England at the present moment is the bill of the play.
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Learned conversation is either the affectation of the ignorant or the profession of the mentally unemployed.
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Either this wallpaper goes, or I do.
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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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Some temptations are so great it takes great courage to yield to them.
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Pleasure is the test of nature, its approval sign.
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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.