Oscar Wilde Quotes
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Like all people who try to exhaust a subject, he exhausted his listeners.
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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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A map of the world that does not include Utopia is not worth even glancing at, for it leaves out the one country at which Humanity is always landing.
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In every first novel the hero is the author as Christ or Faust.
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What is abnormal in Life stands in normal relations to Art. It is the only thing in Life that stands in normal relations to Art.
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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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True contentment is not having everything, but in being satisfied with everything you have.
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The only people I would care to be with now are artists and people who have suffered: those who know what beauty is, and those who know what sorrow is: nobody else interests me.
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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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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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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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I made your sorrow mine also, that you might have help in bearing it.
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Popularity is the only insult that has not yet been offered to Mr. Whistler.
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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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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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I've now realized for the first time in my life the vital Importance of Being Earnest.
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The birds did not understand a single word of what he was saying, but that made no matter, for they put their heads on one side, and looked wise, which is quite as good as understanding a thing, and very much easier.
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We have really everything in common with America nowadays, except, of course, language.
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Be warned in time, James, and remain, as I do, incomprehensible: to be great is to be misunderstood.
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And when wind and winter harden All the loveless land, It will whisper of the garden, You will understand.
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The ability of the theist to misunderstand a thing is directly proportional to the obviousness of the thing.
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America is one long expectoration.
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Love does not traffic in a marketplace, nor use a huckster's scales. Its joy, like the joy of the intellect, is to feel itself alive. The aim of Love is to love: no more, and no less. You were my enemy: such an enemy as no man ever had. I had given you all my life, and to gratify the lowest and most contemptible of all human passions, hatred and vanity and greed, you had thrown it away. In less than three years you had entirely ruined me in every point of view. For my own sake there was nothing for me to do but to love you.
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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.