Oscar Wilde Quotes
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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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I never play cricket. It requires one to assume such indecent postures.
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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 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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All charming people, I fancy, are spoiled. It is the secret of their attraction.
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Either this wallpaper goes, or I do.
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To many, no doubt, he will seem to be somewhat blatant and bumptious, but we prefer to regard him as being simply British.
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A thing is not necessarily true because a man dies for it.
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It is not good for one's morals to see bad acting.
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Let me be dressed as I will, yet flies worms and flowers exceed me still.
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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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Whenever cannibals are on the brink of starvation, Heaven, in its infinite mercy, sends them a fat missionary.
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The English are always degrading truths into facts. When a truth becomes a fact it loses all its intellectual value.
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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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Somehow life is bigger after all Than any painted angel could we see The God that is within us!
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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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Nature constantly imitates art.
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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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All sins, except a sin against itself, Love should forgive. All lives, save loveless lives, true Love should pardon.
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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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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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The criminal classes are so close to us that even the policemen can see them...
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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.