Oscar Wilde Quotes
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Agitators are a set of interfering, meddling people, who come down to some perfectly contented class of the community, and sow the seeds of discontent amongst them. That is the reason why agitators are so absolutely necessary. Without them, in our incomplete state, there would be no advance towards civilisation.
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The play was a great success, but the audience was a disaster.
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Thin-lipped wisdom spoke at her from the worn chair, hinted at prudence, quoted from that book of cowardice whose author apes the name of common sense.
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The way of paradoxes is the way of truth. To test Reality we must see it on the tight-rope.
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No artist has ethical sympathies. An ethical sympathy in an artist is an unpardonable mannerism of style.
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In a temple everything should be serious except the thing that is being worshiped.
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People who count their chickens before they are hatched, act very wisely, because chickens run about so absurdly that it is impossible to count them accurately.
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The husbands of very beautiful women belong to the criminal classes.
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That is what the highest criticism really is, the record of one's own soul. It is more fascinating than history, as it is concerned simply with oneself. It is more delightful than philosophy, as its subject is concrete and not abstract, real and not vague. It is the only civilized form of autobiography.
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There can be nothing more frequent than an occasional drink.
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When critics disagree the artist is in accord with himself.
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His morality is all sympathy, just what morality should be.
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When I went to America I had two secretaries, one for autographs, one for locks of hair. Within six months the one had died of writer's cramp, the other was completely bald.
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Here is the first passionate love-letter I have ever written in my life. Strange, that my first passionate love-letter should have been addressed to a dead girl. Can they feel, I wonder, those white silent people we call the dead?
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Self-denial is simply a method by which arrests his progress, and self-sacrifice a survival of the mutilation of the savage.
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Whenever one has anything unpleasant to say, one should always be quite candid.
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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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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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Don't run down dyed hair and painted faces. There is an extraordinary charm in them, sometimes.
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The note of the perfect personality is not rebellion, but peace.
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My life-my whole life- take it, and do with it what you will. I love you-love you as I have never loved any living thing. From the moment I met you I loved you, loved you blindly, adoringly,madly! You didn't know it then-you know it now.
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They have been eating muffins. That looks like repentance.
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The key to making up Oscar Wilde quotes is to add '~ Oscar Wilde' at the end.
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A cigarette is the perfect type of a perfect pleasure. It is exquisite, and it leaves one unsatisfied. What more can one want?