Oscar Wilde Quotes
-
Women's styles may change but their designs remain the same.
-
Good intentions have been the ruin of the world. The only people who have achieved anything have been those who have had no intentions at all.
-
Why is it that at a bachelor's establishment the servants invariably drink the champagne.
-
I have been right, Basil, haven’t I, to take my love out of poetry, and to find my wife in Shakespeare’s plays? Lips that Shakespeare taught to speak have whispered their secret in my ear. I have had the arms of Rosalind around me, and kissed Juliet on the mouth.
-
There is something tragic about the enormous number of young men there are in England at the present moment who start life with perfect profiles, and end by adopting some useful profession.
-
Woman's first duty in life is to her dressmaker. What the second duty is no one has yet discovered.
-
They have been eating muffins. That looks like repentance.
-
Then there was a man who said, 'I never knew what real happiness was until I got married; by then it was too late'.
-
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.
-
The key to making up Oscar Wilde quotes is to add '~ Oscar Wilde' at the end.
-
Like strange mechanical grotesques, Making fantastic arabesques, The shadows raced across the blind.
-
I forget what killed it. I think it was her proposing to sacrifice the whole world for me. That is always a dreadful moment. It fills one with the terror of eternity.
-
There can be nothing more frequent than an occasional drink.
-
One should not be too severe on English novels; they are the only relaxation of the intellectually unemployed.
-
As a wicked man I am a complete failure. Why, there are lots of people who say I have never really done anything wrong in the whole course of my life. Of course they only say it behind my back.
-
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.
-
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.
-
An artist should create beautiful things, but should put nothing of his own life into them. We live in an age when men treat art as if it were meant to be a form of autobiography. We have lost the abstract sense of beauty.
-
With subtle and finely-wrought temperaments it is always so. Their strong passions must either bruise or bend. They either slay the man, or themselves die. Shallow sorrows and shallow loves live on. The loves and the sorrows that are great are destroyed by their own plenitude.
-
Hear no evil, speak no evil, and you won't be invited to cocktail parties.
-
If you want to be a doormat you have to lay yourself down first.
-
Punctuality is the thief of time.
-
Man is a being with myriad lives and myriad sensations, a complex, multiform creature that bears within itself strange legacies of thought and passion, and whose very flesh is tainted with the monstrous maladies of the dead.
-
It is quite true that I have worshipped you with far more romance of feeling than a man usually gives to a friend. Somehow, I had never loved a woman. I suppose I never had time. Perhaps, as Harry says, a really grande passion is the privilege of those who have nothing to do, and that is the use of the idle classes in a country.