Oscar Wilde Quotes
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The commonest thing is delightful if one only hides it.
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I appropriate what is already mine, for once a thing is published it becomes public property.
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Man is made for something better than disturbing dirt.
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I have always been of opinion that a man who desires to get married should know either everything or nothing.
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By doing just a little every day, I can gradually let the task completely overwhelm me.
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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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I wonder that no criminal has ever pleaded the ugliness of your city as an excuse for his crimes.
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Love does not traffic in a marketplace, nor use a huckster's scales. Its joy, like the joy of the intellect, is to feel itself alive. The aim of Love is to love: no more, and no less. You were my enemy: such an enemy as no man ever had. I had given you all my life, and to gratify the lowest and most contemptible of all human passions, hatred and vanity and greed, you had thrown it away. In less than three years you had entirely ruined me in every point of view. For my own sake there was nothing for me to do but to love you.
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Do you know that I am afraid that good people do a great deal of harm in this world? Certainly the greatest harm they do is that they make badness of such extraordinary importance.
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You have never been poor, and never known what ambition is.
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Life is too short to be in a hurry.
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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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I was dominated, soul, brain, and power by you. You became to me the visible incarnation of that unseen ideal whose memory haunts us artists like an exquisite dream.
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They've promised that dreams can come true - but forgot to mention that nightmares are dreams, too.
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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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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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In going to America one learns that poverty is not a necessary accompaniment to civilization.
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It is a terrible thing for a man to find out suddenly that all his life he has been speaking nothing but the truth.
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I tried to visit Albania but I couldn't find it on the map.
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It is not the prisoners who need reformation, it is the prisons.
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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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It is art, and art only, that reveals us to ourselves.
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I always like to know everything about my new friends, and nothing about my old ones.
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No gentleman ever has any money.