Oscar Wilde Quotes
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We women adore failures. They lean on us.
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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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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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Punctuality is the thief of time.
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I wanted to eat of the fruit of all the trees in the garden of the world… And so, indeed, I went out, and so I lived. My only mistake was that I confined myself so exclusively to the trees of what seemed to me the sun-lit side of the garden, and shunned the other side for its shadow and its gloom.
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And what sort of lives do these people, who pose as being moral, lead themselves? My dear fellow, you forget that we are in the native land of the hypocrite.
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It is a vulgar error to suppose that America was ever discovered. It was merely detected.
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Before Turner there was no fog in London.
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Life is a question of nerves, and fibres, and slowly built-up cells in which thought hides itself and passion has its dreams. You may fancy yourself safe and think yourself strong. But a chance tone of colour in a room or a morning sky, a particular perfume that you had once loved and that brings subtle memories with it, a line from a forgotten poem that you had come across again, a cadence from a piece of music that you had ceased to play... I tell you, that it is on things like these that our lives depend.
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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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Music is the perfect type of art.
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Civilisation is not by any means an easy thing to attain to. There are only two ways by which man can reach it. One is by being cultured, the other by being corrupt.
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So much had been surrendered! And to such little purpose! There had been mad wilful rejections, monstrous forms of self-torture and self-denial, whose origin was fear and whose result was a degradation infinitely more terrible than that fancied degradation from which, in their ignorance, they had sought to escape.
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And thus we rust Life's iron chain Degraded and alone: And some men curse, and some men weep, And some men make no moan: But God's eternal Laws are kind And break the heart of stone.
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The gaudy leonine sunflower Hangs black and barren on its stalk, And down the windy garden walk The dead leaves scatter,- hour by hour.
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The real weakness of England lies, not in incomplete armaments or unfortified coasts, not in the poverty that creeps through sunless lanes, or the drunkenness that brawls in loathsome courts, but simply in the fact that her ideals are emotional and not intellectual.
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I walk the world in wonder.
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The key to making up Oscar Wilde quotes is to add '~ Oscar Wilde' at the end.
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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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Fool, nothing is impossible in Russia but reform.
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The only possible form of exercise is to talk, not to walk.
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There can be nothing more frequent than an occasional drink.
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His style is chaos illumined by flashes of lightning. As a writer he has mastered everything except language.