Oscar Wilde Quotes
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I didn't have a life until I went up onstage.
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I will not bare my soul to their shallow prying eyes. My heart shall never be put under their microscope.
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If I hadn't believed it, then I wouldn't have seen it.
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His morality is all sympathy, just what morality should be.
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Never trust a woman who wears mauve, whatever her age may be, or a woman over thirty-five who is fond of pink ribbons.
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I never saw anybody take so long to dress, and with such little result.
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A flower blossoms for its own joy.
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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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Men are such cowards. They outrage every law in the world and are afraid of the world's tongue.
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To make a good salad is to be a brilliant diplomatist — the problem is entirely the same in both cases. To know exactly how much oil one must put with one's vinegar.
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We women adore failures. They lean on us.
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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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You have killed my love. You used to stir my imagination. Now you don't even stir my curiosity. You simply produce no effect. I loved you because you were marvelous, because you had genius and intellect, because you realized the dreams of great poets and gave shape and substance to the shadows of art. You have thrown it all away. You are shallow and stupid.
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Alcohol, taken in sufficient quantities, may produce all the effects of drunkenness.
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To be really mediæval one should have no body. To be really modern one should have no soul. To be really Greek one should have no clothes.
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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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I feel that if I kept it secret it might grow in my mind (as poisonous things grow in the dark) and take its place with the other terrible thoughts that gnaw me.
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As it was, we always misunderstood ourselves and rarely understood others. Experience was of no ethical value. It was merely the name men gave to their mistakes.
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In America the President reigns for four years, and Journalism governs forever and ever.
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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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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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It is he who has broken the bond of marriage - not I. I only break its bondage.
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I cannot choose one hundred best books because I have only written five.
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My duty as a gentleman has never interfered with my pleasures in the smallest degree.