Oscar Wilde Quotes
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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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Whenever people agree with me I always feel I must be wrong.
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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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You are Beautiful when you are happy.
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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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Her capacity for family affection is extraordinary. When her third husband died, her hair turned quite gold from grief.
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It's tragic how few people ever 'possess their souls' before they die. 'Nothing is more rare in any man', says Emerson, 'than an act of his own.' It is quite true. Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their life is a mimicry, their passions a quotation.
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The camera, you know, will never capture you. Photography, in my experience, has the miraculous power of transferring wine into water.
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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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The only way to atone for being occasionally a little over-dressed is by being always absolutely over-educated.
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How marriage ruins a man! It is as demoralizing as cigarettes, and far more expensive.
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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.
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I never play cricket. It requires one to assume such indecent postures.
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A thing is not necessarily true because a man dies for it.
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And it is only fair to state, with regard to modern journalists, that they always apologise to one in private for what they have written against one in public.
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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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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 very vulgar to talk like a dentist when one isn't a dentist. It produces false impression.
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My own business always bores me to death. I prefer other people's.
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In old days men had the rack. Now they have the press.
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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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I never travel without my diary. One should always have something sensational to read in the train.
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I have learned this: it is not what one does that is wrong, but what one becomes as a consequence of it.
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Good resolutions are simply checks that men draw on a bank where they have no account.