Oscar Wilde Quotes
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Somehow life is bigger after all Than any painted angel could we see The God that is within us!
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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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Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself would say that it had merely been detected.
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Let me be dressed as I will, yet flies worms and flowers exceed me still.
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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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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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The secret of life is in art.
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The criminal classes are so close to us that even the policemen can see them...
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Whenever cannibals are on the brink of starvation, Heaven, in its infinite mercy, sends them a fat missionary.
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There are few of us who have not sometimes wakened before dawn, either after one of those dreamless nights that make one almost enamoured of death, or one of those nights of horror and misshapen joy, when through the chambers of the brain sweep phantoms more terrible than reality itself, and instinct with that vivid life that lurks in all grotesques, and that lends to Gothic art its enduring vitality, this art being, one might fancy, especially the art of those whose minds have been troubled with the malady of reverie.
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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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The evil that machinery is doing is not merely in the consequence of its work but in the fact that it makes men themselves machines also.
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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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I can't help detesting my relations. I suppose it comes from the fact that none of us can stand other people having the same faults as ourselves.
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All charming people, I fancy, are spoiled. It is the secret of their attraction.
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Each man lived his own life and paid his own price for living it. The only pity was one had to pay so often for a single fault. One had to pay over and over again, indeed. In her dealings with man, Destiny never closed her accounts.
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This ghastly state of things is what you call Bunburying, I suppose? Algernon. Yes, and a perfectly wonderful Bunbury it is. The most wonderful Bunbury I have ever had in my life. Jack. Well, you've no right whatsoever to Bunbury here. Algernon. That is absurd. One has a right to Bunbury anywhere one chooses. Every serious Bunburyist knows that.
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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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Either this wallpaper goes, or I do.
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A thing is not necessarily true because a man dies for it.
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He was always late on principle, his principle being that punctuality is the thief of time.
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Men know life too early. Women know life too late. That is the difference between men and women.
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Technique is really personality. That is the reason why the artist cannot teach it, why the pupil cannot learn it, and why the aesthetic critic can understand it.