Oscar Wilde Quotes
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Schools should be the most beautiful place in every town and village-so beautiful that the punishment for undutiful children should be barred from going to school the following day.
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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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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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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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Either this wallpaper goes, or I do.
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An entirely new factor has appeared in the social development of the country, and this factor is the Irish-American, and his influence. To mature its powers, to concentrate its action, to learn the secret of its own strength and of England's weakness, the Celtic intellect has had to cross the Atlantic. At home it had but learned the pathetic weakness of nationality; in a strange land it realised what indomitable forces nationality possesses. What captivity was to the Jews, exile has been to the Irish: America and American influence have educated them.
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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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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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I never play cricket. It requires one to assume such indecent postures.
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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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Rich bachelors should be heavily taxed. It is not fair that some men should be happier than others.
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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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I think life too complex a thing to be settled by these hard and fast rules.
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All charming people, I fancy, are spoiled. It is the secret of their attraction.
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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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The only form of lying that is absolutely beyond reproach is lying for its own sake.
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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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Her capacity for family affection is extraordinary. When her third husband died, her hair turned quite gold from grief.
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Learned conversation is either the affectation of the ignorant or the profession of the mentally unemployed.
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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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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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It is a very sad thing that nowadays there is so little useless information.
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A thing is not necessarily true because a man dies for it.
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Pleasure is the test of nature, its approval sign.