Oscar Wilde Quotes
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In old days men had the rack. Now they have the press.
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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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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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Memory, like a horrible malady, was eating his soul away.
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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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There is nothing so difficult to marry as a large nose.
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Like all people who try to exhaust a subject, he exhausted his listeners.
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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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I had buried my romance in a bed of asphodel.
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True contentment is not having everything, but in being satisfied with everything you have.
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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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And when wind and winter harden All the loveless land, It will whisper of the garden, You will understand.
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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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The ability of the theist to misunderstand a thing is directly proportional to the obviousness of the thing.
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Nothing is good in moderation. You cannot know good in anything until you have torn the heart out of it by excess.
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Liberty is the chosen resort of the artistic shopper.
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There are two ways to dislike poetry: One is to dislike it; the other is to read Pope.
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I made your sorrow mine also, that you might have help in bearing it.
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Conscience and cowardice are really the same things. Conscience is the trade-name of the firm. That is all.
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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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'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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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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Algy, you always adopt a strictly immoral attitude towards life. You are not quite old enough to do that.
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When I like people immensely I never tell their names to anyone. It is like surrendering a part of them. I have grown to love secrecy.