Oscar Wilde Quotes
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Bore: a man who is never unintentionally rude.
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I never read a book I must review; it prejudices you so.
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Man is made for something better than disturbing dirt.
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I cannot choose one hundred best books because I have only written five.
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This is no time for wearing the shallow mask of manners. When I see a spade I call it a spade. I am glad to say that I have never seen a spade. It is obvious that our social spheres have been widely different.
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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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Women defend themselves by attacking, just as they attack by sudden and strange surrenders.
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In fact, now you mention the subject, I have been very bad in my own small way. I don't think you should be so proud of that, though I am sure it must have been very pleasant.
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Society, as we have constituted it, will have no place for me, has none to offer; but Nature, whose sweet rains fall on unjust and just alike, will have clefts in the rocks where I may hide, and secret valleys in whose silence I may weep undisturbed. She will hang the night with stars so that I may walk abroad in the darkness without stumbling, and send the wind over my footprints so that none may track me to my hurt: she will cleance me in the great waters, and with bitter herbs make me whole.
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You shut out from your society the gentle and the good. You laugh at the simple and the pure. living, as you all do, on other and by them, you need at self-sacrifice, and if you throw bread to the poor, it is merely to keep them quiet for a season.
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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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She was a curious woman, whose dresses always looked as if they had been designed in a rage and put on in a tempest. She was usually in love with somebody, and, as her passion was never returned, she had kept all her illusions. She tried to look picturesque, but only succeeded in being untidy.
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Fool, nothing is impossible in Russia but reform.
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The happiness of a married man depends on the people he has not married. One should always be in love - that's the reason one should never marry.
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It is a pity to make a mystery out of what should most easily be understood. There is nothing occult about the thought that all things maybe made well or made ill. A work of art is a well-made thing - that is all. It may be a well-made statue of a well-made chair or a well-made book. Art is not a special sauce applied to ordinary cooking; it is the cooking itself that is good. Most simply and generally, Art may be thought of as "The Well Doing of What Needs Doing."
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Then there was a man who said, 'I never knew what real happiness was until I got married; by then it was too late'.
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The General was essentially a man of peace, except in his domestic life.
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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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The Number our envious Persons, confirmation our capability.
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It is a vulgar error to suppose that America was ever discovered. It was merely detected.
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I love scandals about other people, but scandals about myself don’t interest me. They have not got the charm of novelty.
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It would leave no room for developments and I intend to develop in many directions.
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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.