Oscar Wilde Quotes
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Nowadays to be intelligible is to be found out.
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The true perfection of man lies not in what man has, but in what man is.
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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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My duty as a gentleman has never interfered with my pleasures in the smallest degree.
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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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A misanthrope I can understand - a womanthrope never.
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There is no such thing as a good influence. Because to influence a person is to give him one's own soul. He does not think his natural thoughts, or burn with his natural passions. His virtures are not real to him. His sins, if there are such thing as sins, are borrowed. He becomes an echo of someone else's music, an actor of a part that has not been written for him.
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The mind of a the thoroughly well-informed man is a dreadful thing. It is like a bric-a-brac shop, all monsters and dust, with everything priced above its proper value.
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A subject that is beautiful in itself gives no suggestion to the artist. It lacks imperfection.
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Anybody can be good in the country. There are no temptations there.
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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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The last person who ever crossed me is dead under my bed!!!
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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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A writer is someone who has taught his mind to misbehave.
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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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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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When I am in trouble, eating is the only thing that consoles me. Indeed, as any one who knows me intimately will tell you, I refuse everything except food and drink. At the present moment I am eating muffins because I am unhappy. Besides, I am particularly fond of muffins.
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If I hadn't believed it, then I wouldn't have seen it.
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In fact, the whole of Japan is a pure invention. There is no such country, there are no such people.... The Japanese people are ... simply a mode of style, an exquisite fancy of art.
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I have made an important discovery... that alcohol, taken in sufficient quantities, produces all the effect of intoxication.
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You told me you had destroyed it. I was wrong. It has destroyed me.
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All art is at once surface and symbol.
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Man is made for something better than disturbing dirt.
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Anybody can sympathize with the sufferings of a friend, but it requires a very fine nature it requires, in fact, that nature of a true Individualist to sympathize with a friend's success.