Oscar Wilde Quotes
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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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All thought is immoral. Its very essence is destruction. If you think of anything, you kill it. Nothing survives being thought of.
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A subject that is beautiful in itself gives no suggestion to the artist. It lacks imperfection.
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The job of the critic is to report to us his moods.
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Nowadays to be intelligible is to be found out.
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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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Either this wallpaper goes, or I do.
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This suspense is terrible. I hope it will last.
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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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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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A writer is someone who has taught his mind to misbehave.
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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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There is one thing infinitely more pathetic than to have lost the woman one is in love with, and that is to have won her and found out how shallow she is!
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The true perfection of man lies not in what man has, but in what man is.
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If I hadn't believed it, then I wouldn't have seen it.
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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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The amount of women in London who flirt with their own husbands is perfectly scandalous. It looks so bad. It is simply washing one’s clean linen in public.
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It is always worth while asking a question, though it is not always worth while answering one.
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Do you really keep a diary? I'd give anything to look at it. May I? Oh, no. You see, it is simply a very young girl's record of her own thoughts and impressions, and consequently meant for publication. When it appears in volume form I hope you will order a copy.
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On the whole, the great success of marriage in the States is due partly to the fact that no American man is ever idle, and partly to the fact that no American wife is considered responsible for the quality of her husband's dinners.
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To toil for a hard master is bitter, but to have no master to toil for is more bitter still.
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You told me you had destroyed it. I was wrong. It has destroyed me.
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It is not the prisoners who need reformation, it is the prisons.