Oscar Wilde Quotes
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The intellect is not a serious thing, and never has been. It is an instrument on which one plays, that is all.
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Tread Lightly, she is nearUnder the snow,Speak gently, she can hearThe daisies grow.
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It was a fatal day when the public discovered that the pen is mightier than the paving-stone, and can be made as offensive as the brickbat. They at once sought for the journalist, found him, developed him, and made him their industrious and well-paid servant. It is greatly to be regretted, for both their sakes.
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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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The last person who ever crossed me is dead under my bed!!!
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It is a vulgar error to suppose that America was ever discovered. It was merely detected.
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Life cheats us with shadows. We ask it for pleasure. It gives it to us with bitterness and disappointment in its train.
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On refusing to make alterations to one of his plays: Who am I to tamper with a masterpiece?
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I have grown to love secrecy. It seems to be the one thing that can make modern life mysterious or marvelous to us. The commonest thing is delightful if only one hides it.
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I walk the world in wonder.
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Women defend themselves by attacking, just as they attack by sudden and strange surrenders.
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And down the long and silent street,The dawn, with silver-sandalled feet,Crept like a frightened girl.
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When people talk to us about others they are usually dull. When they talk to us about themselves they are nearly always interesting.
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I have a business appointment that I am anxious... to miss.
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Murder is always a mistake. One should never do anything that one cannot talk about after dinner.
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Tell the cook of this restaurant with my compliments that these are the very worst sandwiches in the whole world, and that, when I ask for a watercress sandwich, I do not mean a loaf with a field in the middle of it.
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Even before I met you I was far from indifferent to you.
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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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Ah, well, then I suppose I shall have to die beyond my means.
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It would leave no room for developments and I intend to develop in many directions.
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Before Turner there was no fog in London.
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A misanthrope I can understand - a womanthrope never.
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Man is made for something better than disturbing dirt.
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Misfortunes one can endure - they come from outside, they are accidents. But to suffer for one's own faults - Ah! there is the sting of life.