Oscar Wilde Quotes
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It is only the sacred things that are worth touching.
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We always misunderstood ourselves, and rarely understood others.
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Men become old, but they never become good.
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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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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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Oh! I don't think I would like to catch a sensible man. I shouldn't know what to talk to him about.
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Man is many things, but he is not rational.
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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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To elope is cowardly; it is running away from danger; and danger has become so rare in modern life.
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In judging of a beautiful statue, the aesthetic faculty is absolutely and completely gratified by the splendid curves of those marble lips that are dumb to our complaint, the noble modelling of those limbs that are powerless to help us.
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A man's life is of more value than a woman's. It has larger issues, wider scope, greater ambitions. Our lives revolve in curves of emotions. It is upon lines of intellect that a man's life progresses. I have just learnt this, and much else with it, from Lord Goring. And I will not spoil your life for you, nor see you spoil it as a sacrifice to me, a useless sacrifice.
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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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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've now realized for the first time in my life the vital Importance of Being Earnest.
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When our eyes met, I felt that I was growing pale. A curious sensation of terror came over me. I knew that I had come face to face with some one whose mere personality was so fascinating that, if I allowed it to do so, it would absorb my whole nature, my whole soul, my very art itself.
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Memory, like a horrible malady, was eating his soul away.
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But what world says that I'm wicked? It can only be the next world. This world and I are on excellent terms.
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Now produce your explanation and pray make it improbable.
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Like two doomed ships that pass in storm we had crossed each other's way: but we made no sign, we said no word, we had no word to say.
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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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If it took Labouchere three columns to prove that I was forgotten, then there is no difference between fame and obscurity.
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To drift with every passion till my soulIs a stringed lute on which all winds can play, Is it for this that I have given away Mine ancient wisdom, and austere control?Methinks my life is a twice-written scroll Scrawled over on some boyish holiday With idle songs for pipe and virelay, Which do but mar the secret of the whole.
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He must have a truly romantic nature, for he weeps when there is nothing at all to weep about.
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A man who marries without knowing Bunbury has a very tedious time of it.