Oscar Wilde Quotes
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He thinks like a Tory, and talks like a Radical, and that's so important nowadays.
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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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It is not the prisoners who need reformation, it is the prisons.
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No gentleman ever has any money.
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What is mind but motion in the intellectual sphere?
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Schopenhauer has analysed the pessimism that characterize modern thought, but Hamlet invented it.
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Life is too short to be in a hurry.
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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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The more we study Art, the less we care for Nature. What Art really reveals to us is Nature's lack of design, her curious crudities, her extraordinary monotony, her absolutely unfinished condition.
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I always like to know everything about my new friends, and nothing about my old ones.
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But beauty, real beauty, ends where an intellectual expression begins. Intellect is in itself a mode of exaggeration, and destroys the harmony of any face.
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You have never been poor, and never known what ambition is.
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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.
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Fruitcake is like semen, there's a lot of it about but no one wants to swallow it.
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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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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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I tried to visit Albania but I couldn't find it on the map.
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If there is anything more annoying in the world than having people talk about you, it is certainly having no one talk about you.
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I appropriate what is already mine, for once a thing is published it becomes public property.
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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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The job of the critic is to report to us his moods.
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Romantic art deals with the exception and with the individual. Good people, belonging as they do to the normal, and so, commonplace type, are artistically uninteresting.
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By doing just a little every day, I can gradually let the task completely overwhelm me.
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An engagement should come on a young girl as a surprise, pleasant or unpleasant as the case may be.