Oscar Wilde Quotes
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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 secret of life is in art.
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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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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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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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The intellect is not a serious thing, and never has been. It is an instrument on which one plays, that is all.
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To toil for a hard master is bitter, but to have no master to toil for is more bitter still.
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I made your sorrow mine also, that you might have help in bearing it.
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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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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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This suspense is terrible. I hope it will last.
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We are never more true to ourselves than when we are inconsistent.
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We always misunderstood ourselves, and rarely understood others.
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The American father is never seen in London. He passes his life entirely in Wall Street and communicates with his family once a month by means of a telegram in cipher.
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Like all people who try to exhaust a subject, he exhausted his listeners.
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Now produce your explanation and pray make it improbable.
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Perhaps one of the most difficult things for us to do is to choose a notable and joyous dress for men. There would be more joy in life if we were to accustom ourselves to use all the beautiful colours we can in fashioning our own clothes.
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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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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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When I am in trouble, eating is the only thing that consoles me. Indeed, as any one who knows me intimately will tell you, I refuse everything except food and drink. At the present moment I am eating muffins because I am unhappy. Besides, I am particularly fond of muffins.
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If one could only teach the English how to talk, and the Irish how to listen, society here would be quite civilized.
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I don't like novels that end happily. They depress me so much.
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Man is many things, but he is not rational.
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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.