Oscar Wilde Quotes
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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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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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You are Beautiful when you are happy.
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The difference between literature and journalism is that journalism is unreadable and literature is not read.
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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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Men become old, but they never become good.
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It is only the sacred things that are worth touching.
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Never met such a Gorgon . . . I don't really know what a Gorgon is like, but I am quite sure that Lady Bracknell is one. In any case, she is a monster, without being a myth, which is rather unfair.
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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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All sins, except a sin against itself, Love should forgive. All lives, save loveless lives, true Love should pardon.
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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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The English are always degrading truths into facts. When a truth becomes a fact it loses all its intellectual value.
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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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We are never more true to ourselves than when we are inconsistent.
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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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Good resolutions are simply checks that men draw on a bank where they have no account.
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Each little thing that we do passes into the great machine of life which may grind our virtues to powder and make them worthless, or transform our sins into elements of a new civilization, more marvelous and more splendid than any that has gone before.
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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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To have friends, you know, one need only be good-natured; but when a man has no enemy left there must be something mean about him.
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Man is many things, but he is not rational.
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We always misunderstood ourselves, and rarely understood others.
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We have really everything in common with America nowadays, except, of course, language.
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I didn't say I liked it Harry. I said it fascinated me. There is a great difference.
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Now produce your explanation and pray make it improbable.