Oscar Wilde Quotes
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He was always late on principle, his principle being that punctuality is the thief of time.
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The difference between literature and journalism is that journalism is unreadable and literature is not read.
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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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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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Men know life too early. Women know life too late. That is the difference between men and women.
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The longer I live the more keenly I feel that whatever was good enough for our fathers is not good enough for us.
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We have really everything in common with America nowadays, except, of course, language.
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If one hears bad music, it is one's duty to drown it by one's conversation.
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You are Beautiful when you are happy.
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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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There is nothing so difficult to marry as a large nose.
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Men become old, but they never become good.
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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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The recognition of private property has really harmed Individualism, and obscured it, by confusing a man with what he possesses. It has led Individualism entirely astray. It has made gain, not growth its aim. So that man thought that the important thing is to have, and did not know that the important thing is to be.
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I had buried my romance in a bed of asphodel.
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We are never more true to ourselves than when we are inconsistent.
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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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It is only the sacred things that are worth touching.
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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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It is immoral to use private property in order to alleviate the horrible evils that result from the institution of private property.
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'The Lady's World' should be made the recognized organ for the expression of women's opinions on all subjects of literature, art and modern life, and yet it should be a magazine that men could read with pleasure.
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As for borrowing Mr. Whistler's ideas about art, the only thoroughly original ideas I have heard him express have had reference to his own superiority as a painter over painters greater than himself.
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Now produce your explanation and pray make it improbable.
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We always misunderstood ourselves, and rarely understood others.