Oscar Wilde Quotes
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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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Each man lived his own life and paid his own price for living it. The only pity was one had to pay so often for a single fault. One had to pay over and over again, indeed. In her dealings with man, Destiny never closed her accounts.
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I wonder who it was defined man as a rational animal. It was the most premature definition ever given. Man is many things, but he is not rational.
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To be born, or at any rate bred, in a hand-bag, whether it had handles or not, seems to me to display a contempt for the ordinary decencies of family life that reminds one of the worst excesses of the French Revolution.
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In war, the strong make slaves of the weak, and in peace the rich makes slaves of the poor.
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He thinks like a Tory, and talks like a Radical, and that's so important nowadays.
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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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The commonest thing is delightful if one only hides it.
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It is art, and art only, that reveals us to ourselves.
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That quite does for me. I haven't a word to say... Too much care was taken with our education, I am afraid. To have been well brought up is a great drawback nowadays. It shuts one out from so much.
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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.
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I have spent most of the day putting in a comma and the rest of the day taking it out.
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Life, is simply a mauvais quart d'heure made up of exquisite moments.
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Writing bores me so.
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Schopenhauer has analysed the pessimism that characterize modern thought, but Hamlet invented it.
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You have never been poor, and never known what ambition is.
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I always like to know everything about my new friends, and nothing about my old ones.
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She is absolutely inadmissible into society. Many a woman has a past, but I am told that she has at least a dozen, and that they all fit.
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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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What is mind but motion in the intellectual sphere?
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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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In going to America one learns that poverty is not a necessary accompaniment to civilization.
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Genius lasts longer than Beauty. That accounts for the fact that we all take such pains to over-educate ourselves.
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It is immoral to use private property in order to alleviate the horrible evils that result from the institution of private property.