Oscar Wilde Quotes
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There was so much in you that charmed me that I felt I must tell you something about yourself. I thought how tragic it would be if you were wasted.
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I had buried my romance in a bed of asphodel.
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The first thing that struck me on landing in America was that if the Americans are not the most well-dressed people in the world, they are the most comfortably dressed.
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Nowadays to be intelligible is to be found out.
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I appropriate what is already mine, for once a thing is published it becomes public property.
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Oh, brothers! I don't care for brothers. My elder brother won't die, and my younger brothers seem never to do anything else.
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No gentleman ever has any money.
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Life is too short to be in a hurry.
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Prosperity, pleasure and success, may be rough of grain and common in fibre, but sorrow is the most sensitive of all created things. There is nothing that stirs in the whole world of thought to which sorrow does not vibrate in terrible and exquisite pulsation. The thin beaten-out leaf of tremulous gold that chronicles the direction of forces the eye cannot see is in comparison coarse. It is a wound that bleeds when any hand but that of love touches it, and even then must bleed again, though not in pain.
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There is nothing so difficult to marry as a large nose.
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He thinks like a Tory, and talks like a Radical, and that's so important nowadays.
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A subject that is beautiful in itself gives no suggestion to the artist. It lacks imperfection.
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The commonest thing is delightful if one only hides it.
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I wonder that no criminal has ever pleaded the ugliness of your city as an excuse for his crimes.
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The true perfection of man lies not in what man has, but in what man is.
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When a golden girl can win Prayer from out the lips of sin, When the barren almond bears, And a little child gives away its tears, Then shall all the house be still And peace come to Canterville.
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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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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 never take any notice to what common people say, and I never interfere with what charming people do.
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It is he who has broken the bond of marriage - not I. I only break its bondage.
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As for modern Journalism, its not my business to defend it. It justifies its own existence by the great Darwinian principle of the survival of the vulgarest.
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If England treats her criminals the way she has treated me, she doesn't deserve to have any.
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Palermo was lovely. The most beautifully situated town in the world - it dreams away its life in the Conca d'Oro, the exquisite valley that lies between two seas. The lemon groves and the orange gardens were entirely perfect.
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Music is the art... which most completely realizes the artistic idea and is the condition to which all the other arts are constantly aspiring.