Oscar Wilde Quotes
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I am not laughing, Dorian; at least I am not laughing at you. But you should not say the greatest romance of your life. You should say the first romance of your life. You will always be loved, and you will always be in love with love. A grande passion is the privilege of people who have nothing to do. That is the one use of the idle classes of a country. Don't be afraid. There are exquisite things in store for you. This is merely the beginning.
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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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Don't imagine that your perfection lies in accumulating or possessing external things. Your affection is inside of you.
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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 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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She is absolutely inadmissible into society. Many a woman has a past, but I am told that she has at least a dozen, and that they all fit.
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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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A writer is someone who has taught his mind to misbehave.
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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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I cannot choose one hundred best books because I have only written five.
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Music is the perfect type of art.
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Bore: a man who is never unintentionally rude.
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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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But beauty, real beauty, ends where an intellectual expression begins. Intellect is in itself a mode of exaggeration, and destroys the harmony of any face.
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My duty as a gentleman has never interfered with my pleasures in the smallest degree.
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If I hadn't believed it, then I wouldn't have seen it.
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I love talking about nothing. It is the only thing I know anything about.
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Woman's first duty in life is to her dressmaker. What the second duty is no one has yet discovered.
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Rugby is a good occasion for keeping thirty bullies far from the center of the city.
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Only people who look dull ever get into the House of Commons, and only people who are dull ever succeed there.
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The General was essentially a man of peace, except in his domestic life.
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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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A flower blossoms for its own joy.
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I walk the world in wonder.