Oscar Wilde Quotes
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There is no such thing as a heterosexual male, only men who haven't met Oscar Wilde yet.
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For one moment our lives met, our souls touched.
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I walk the world in wonder.
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If one hears bad music, it is one's duty to drown it by one's conversation.
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It is not the prisoners who need reformation, it is the prisons.
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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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It was the passions about whose origin we deceived ourselves that tyrannized most strongly over us.
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The only artists I have ever known who are personally delightful are bad artists. Good artists exist simply in what they make, and consequently are perfectly uninteresting in what they are.
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It takes a thoroughly good woman to do a thoroughly stupid thing.
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The only proper intoxication is conversation.
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Every impulse we strangle will only poison us.
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The moon in her chariot of pearl.
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The note of the perfect personality is not rebellion, but peace.
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Its a beautiful woman's fate to be the subject of conversation where ever she goes.
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But whether I become a believer or remain an agnostic, my belief or disbelief must derive its source from within, not from without. I, myself, must create its symbols. The transcendental is that which produces its own form. I will never discover its secret if I do not find it in my own heart; if I do not possess it already I shall never be able to acquire it.
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It often happens that the real tragedies of life occur in such an inartistic manner that they hurt us by their crude violence, their absolute incoherence, their absurd want of meaning, their entire lack of style.
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You have filled my tea with lumps of sugar, and though I asked most distinctly for bread and butter, you have given me cake. I am known for the gentleness of my disposition, and the extraordinary sweetness of my nature, but I warn you, Miss Cardew, you may go too far.
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We in the House of Lords are never in touch with public opinion. That makes us a civilised body.
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Plain women are always jealous of their husbands. Beautiful women never are. They are always so occupied with being jealous of other women's husbands.
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It would leave no room for developments and I intend to develop in many directions.
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Fool, nothing is impossible in Russia but reform.
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Modern pictures are, no doubt, delightful to look at. At least, some of them are. But they are quite impossible to live with; they are too clever, too assertive, too intellectual. Their meaning is too obvious, and their method too clearly defined.
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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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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.