Oscar Wilde Quotes
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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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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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You have never been poor, and never known what ambition is.
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I tried to visit Albania but I couldn't find it on the map.
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The only real people are the people who never existed.
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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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It was the passions about whose origin we deceived ourselves that tyrannized most strongly over us.
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He thinks like a Tory, and talks like a Radical, and that's so important nowadays.
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She is a peacock in everything but beauty.
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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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Freedom, individualism and being yourself so long as you don't hurt another's physical person or property: The true artist is a man who believes absolutely in himself, because he is absolutely himself.
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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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I have spent most of the day putting in a comma and the rest of the day taking it out.
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An engagement should come on a young girl as a surprise, pleasant or unpleasant as the case may be.
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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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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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I have always been of opinion that a man who desires to get married should know either everything or nothing.
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The intellect is not a serious thing, and never has been. It is an instrument on which one plays, that is all.
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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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Life is too short to be in a hurry.
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It is art, and art only, that reveals us to ourselves.
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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.