Oscar Wilde Quotes
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When critics disagree the artist is in accord with himself.
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What you really are is a Bunburyist. I was quite right in saying you were a Bunburyist. You are one of the most advanced Bunburyists I know.
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In a temple everything should be serious except the thing that is being worshiped.
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Human life--that appeared to him the one thing worth investigating. Compared to it there was nothing else of any value. It was true that as one watched life in its curious crucible of pain and pleasure, one could not wear over one's face a mask of glass, nor keep the sulphurous fumes from troubling the brain and making the imagination turbid with monstrous fancies and misshapen dreams.
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Individualism has really the higher aim. Modern morality consists in accepting the standard of one's age.
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Biography lends to death a new terror.
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Veil after veil of thin dusky gauze is lifted, and by degrees the forms and colours of things are restored to them, and we watch the dawn remaking the world in its antique pattern.
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For one moment our lives met, our souls touched.
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She is very clever, too clever for a woman. She lacks the indefinable charm of weakness.
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People who love only once in their lives are. . . shallow people. What they call their loyalty, and their fidelity, I call either the lethargy of custom or their lack of imagination.
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God, bless me with luxury. Necessities I can do without.
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I have made an important discovery... that alcohol, taken in sufficient quantities, produces all the effect of intoxication.
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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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The ugly and stupid have the best of it in this world. They can sit at their ease and gape at the play. If they know nothing of victory, they are at least spared the knowledge of defeat. They live as we all should live-- undisturbed, indifferent, and without disquiet. They never bring ruin upon others, nor ever receive it from alien hands. Your rank and wealth, Henry; my brains, such as they are-- my art, whatever it may be worth; Dorian Gray's good looks-- we shall all suffer for what the gods have given us, suffer terribly.
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I don't like Switzerland; it has produced nothing but theologians and waiters.
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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 only possible form of exercise is to talk, not to walk.
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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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Nowadays to be intelligible is to be found out.
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One should never trust a woman who tells her real age. If she tells that, she'll tell anything.
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Just as the philanthropist is the nuisance of the ethical sphere, so the nuisance of the intellectual sphere is the man who is so occupied in trying to educate others, that he has never had any time to educate himself.
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Oh, I love London society! It is entirely composed now of beautiful idiots and brilliant lunatics. Just what society should be.
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George Moore wrote brilliant English until he discovered grammar.
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Personality must be accepted for what it is. You mustn't mind that a poet is a drunk, rather that drunks are not always poets.