Oscar Wilde Quotes
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Musical people are so absurdly unreasonable. They always want one to be perfectly dumb a the very moment when one is longing to be absolutely deaf.
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Life, is simply a mauvais quart d'heure made up of exquisite moments.
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She was a curious woman, whose dresses always looked as if they had been designed in a rage and put on in a tempest. She was usually in love with somebody, and, as her passion was never returned, she had kept all her illusions. She tried to look picturesque, but only succeeded in being untidy.
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He thinks like a Tory, and talks like a Radical, and that's so important nowadays.
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Schopenhauer has analysed the pessimism that characterize modern thought, but Hamlet invented it.
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A misanthrope I can understand - a womanthrope never.
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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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What is mind but motion in the intellectual sphere?
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The last person who ever crossed me is dead under my bed!!!
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Now don't stir. I'll be back in five minutes. And don't fall into any temptations while I am away.
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I am quite incapable of understanding how any work of art can be criticized from a moral standpoint. The sphere of art and the sphere of ethics are absolutely distinct and separate.
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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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An engagement should come on a young girl as a surprise, pleasant or unpleasant as the case may be.
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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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Absolute catholicity of taste is not without its dangers. It is only an auctioneer who should admire all schools of art.
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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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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 have spent most of the day putting in a comma and the rest of the day taking it out.
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With freedom, books, flowers, and the moon, who could not be happy?
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The 19thc hatred of Realism is Caliban's enraged reaction to seeing his own face in the mirror. The 19thc rejection of Romanticism is Caliban's fury at not seeing his face reflected in the mirror.
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Football is all very well as a game for rough girls, but is hardly suitable for delicate boys.
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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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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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To define is to limit.