Oscar Wilde Quotes
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There is no such thing as morality or immorality in thought. There is immoral emotion.
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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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Men are such cowards. They outrage every law in the world and are afraid of the world's tongue.
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With freedom, books, flowers, and the moon, who could not be happy?
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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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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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Don't feed the trolls; nothing fuels them so much.
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Misery and poverty are so absolutely degrading, and exercise such a paralysing effect over the nature of men, that no class is ever really conscious of its own suffering. They have to be told of it by other people, and they often entirely disbelieve them.
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I like to do all the talking myself. It saves time, and prevents arguments.
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Alcohol, taken in sufficient quantities, may produce all the effects of drunkenness.
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It is a terrible thing for a man to find out suddenly that all his life he has been speaking nothing but the truth.
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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 always worth while asking a question, though it is not always worth while answering one.
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If this is the way Queen Victoria treats her prisoners, she doesn't deserve to have any.
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She is very clever, too clever for a woman. She lacks the indefinable charm of weakness.
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Morality, like art, means drawing a line someplace.
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How sad it is! I shall grow old, and horrid, and dreadful. But this picture will remain always young. It will never be older than this particular day of June. . . . If it was only the other way! If it was I who were to be always young, and the picture that were to grow old! For this — for this — I would give everything! Yes, there is nothing in the whole world I would not give!
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Whatever, in fact, is modern in our life we owe to the Greeks. Whatever is an anachronism is due to mediaevalism.
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Set in this stormy Northern sea, Queen of these restless fields of tide, England! what shall men say of thee, Before whose feet the worlds divide?
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Out of the sea will rise Behemoth and Leviathan, and sail 'round the high-pooped galleys... Dragons will wander about the waste places, and the phoenix will soar from her nest of fire into the air. We shall lay our hands upon the basilisk, and see the jewel in the toad's head. Champing his gilded oats, the Hippogriff will stand in our stalls, and over our heads will float the Blue Bird singing of beautiful and impossible things, of things that are lovely and that never happen, of things that are not and that should be.
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You know what a woman's curiosity is.
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Just as the philanthropist is the nuisance of the ethical sphere, so the nuisance of the intellectual sphere is the man who is so occupied in trying to educate others, that he has never had any time to educate himself.
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And certainly once a man begins to neglect his domestic duties he becomes painfully effeminate, does he not? And I don't like that. It makes men so very attractive.
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George Moore wrote brilliant English until he discovered grammar.