Oscar Wilde Quotes
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Palermo was lovely. The most beautifully situated town in the world - it dreams away its life in the Conca d'Oro, the exquisite valley that lies between two seas. The lemon groves and the orange gardens were entirely perfect.
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Memory, like a horrible malady, was eating his soul away.
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If I hadn't believed it, then I wouldn't have seen it.
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They afterwards took me to a dancing saloon where I saw the only rational method of art criticism I have ever come across. Over the piano was printed a notice- 'Please do not shoot the pianist. He is doing his best.'
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In America the President reigns for four years, and Journalism governs forever and ever.
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It is he who has broken the bond of marriage - not I. I only break its bondage.
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If one could only teach the English how to talk, and the Irish how to listen, society here would be quite civilized.
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You told me you had destroyed it. I was wrong. It has destroyed me.
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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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Why, what a wonderful piece of luck! Here is a red rose! I have never seen any rose like it in all my life. It is so beautiful that I am sure it has a long Latin name.
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Just as the orator marks his good things by a dramatic pause, or by raising and lowering his voice, or by gesture, so the writer marks his epigrams with italics, setting the little gem, so to speak, like a jeweler.
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Do you smoke? Well, yes, I must admit I smoke. I'm glad to hear of it. A man should always have an occupation of some kind.
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Nowadays, all the married men live like bachelors, and all the bachelors like married men.
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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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It is immoral to use private property in order to alleviate the horrible evils that result from the institution of private property.
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I love talking about nothing. It is the only thing I know anything about.
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In going to America one learns that poverty is not a necessary accompaniment to civilization.
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By doing just a little every day, I can gradually let the task completely overwhelm me.
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Jack? . . . No, there is very little music in the name Jack, if any at all, indeed. It does not thrill. It produces absolutely no vibrations . . . I have known several Jacks, and they all, without exception, were more than usually plain. Besides, Jack is a notorious domesticity for John! And I pity any woman who is married to a man called John. She would probably never be allowed to know the entrancing pleasure of a single moment’s solitude. The only really safe name is Ernest.
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I may have said the same thing before...but my explanation, I am sure, will always be different.
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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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Rugby is a good occasion for keeping thirty bullies far from the center of the city.
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It is well for our vanity that we slay the criminal, for if we suffered him to live he might show us what we had gained by his crime.
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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.