Oscar Wilde Quotes
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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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Lord Caversham: No woman, plain or pretty, has any common sense at all, sir. Common sense is the privilege of our sex.Lord Goring: Quite so. And we men are so self-sacrificing that we never use it, do we, father?
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The job of the critic is to report to us his moods.
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That very concentration of vision and intensity of purpose which is the characteristic of the artistic temperament is in itself a mode of limitation. To those who are preoccupied with the beauty of form nothing else seems of much importance.
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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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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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She is a peacock in everything but beauty.
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The commonest thing is delightful if one only hides it.
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Plain women are always jealous of their husbands. Beautiful women never are. They are always so occupied with being jealous of other women's husbands.
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One can only give an unbiased opinion about things that do not interest one, which is no doubt the reason an unbiased opinion is always valueless. The man who sees both sides of a question is a man who sees absolutely nothing.
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We have been able to have fine poetry in England because the public do not read it, and consequently do not influence it. The public like to insult poets because they are individual, but once they have insulted them, they leave them alone.
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It is well for his peace that the saint goes to his martyrdom. He is spared the sight of the horror of his harvest.
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Ordinary people waited till life disclosed to them its secrets, but to the few, to the elect, the mysteries of life were revealed before the veil was drawn away. Sometimes this was the effect of art, and chiefly of the art of literature, which dealt immediately with the passions and the intellect.
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It is not the prisoners who need reformation, it is the prisons.
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When bankers get together they talk about art. When artists get together, they talk about money.
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The English public always feels perfectly at ease when a mediocrity is talking to it.
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One must have some sort of occupation nowadays. If I hadn't my debts I shouldn't have anything to think about.
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She was a curious woman, whose dresses always looked as if they had been designed in a rage and put on in a tempest. She was usually in love with somebody, and, as her passion was never returned, she had kept all her illusions. She tried to look picturesque, but only succeeded in being untidy.
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Writing bores me so.
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Anybody can sympathize with the sufferings of a friend, but it requires a very fine nature it requires, in fact, that nature of a true Individualist to sympathize with a friend's success.
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Popularity is the only insult that has not yet been offered to Mr. Whistler.
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Football is all very well as a game for rough girls, but is hardly suitable for delicate boys.
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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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Each class preaches the importance of those virtues it need not exercise. The rich harp on the value of thrift, the idle grow eloquent over the dignity of labor.