Oscar Wilde Quotes
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What art seeks to disturb is monotony of type, slavery of custom, tyranny of habit, and the reduction of man to the level of a machine.
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Meredith is a prose Browning, and so is Browning. He used poetry as a medium for writing in prose.
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It is only the sacred things that are worth touching.
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Algy, you always adopt a strictly immoral attitude towards life. You are not quite old enough to do that.
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To elope is cowardly; it is running away from danger; and danger has become so rare in modern life.
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As I lounged in the Park, or strolled down Piccadilly, I used to look at everyone who passed me, and wonder, with mad curiosity, what sort of lives they led. some of them fascinated me. Others filled me with terror.
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My friend is not allowed to go out today. I sit by his side and read him passages from his own life. They fill him with surprise. Everyone should keep someone else's diary; I sometimes suspect you of keeping mine.
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A well-tied tie is the first serious step in life.
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Yet each man kills the thing he loves from all let this be heard some does it with a bitter look some with a flattering word the coward does it with a kiss the brave man with the sword.
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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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My own business always bores me to death. I prefer other people's.
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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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Nothing is good in moderation. You cannot know good in anything until you have torn the heart out of it by excess.
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The Ideal Man should talk to us as if we were goddesses, and treat us as if we were children. He should refuse all our serious requests, and gratify every one of our whims. He should encourage us to have caprices, and forbid us to have missions. He should always say much more than he means, and always mean much more than he says.
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Men become old, but they never become good.
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We always misunderstood ourselves, and rarely understood others.
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Man is many things, but he is not rational.
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A man who marries without knowing Bunbury has a very tedious time of it.
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I have met a lot of hardboiled eggs in my time, but you're twenty minutes.
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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.
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Mothers, of course, are all right. They pay a chap's bills and don't bother him. But fathers bother a chap and never pay his bills.
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To give an accurate description of what has never occurred is not merely the proper occupation of the historian, but the inalienable privilege of any man of parts and culture.
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There are two ways to dislike poetry: One is to dislike it; the other is to read Pope.
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Science can never grapple with the irrational. That is why it has no future before it, in this world.