Oscar Wilde Quotes
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Anybody can sympathize with the sufferings of a friend, but it requires a very fine nature it requires, in fact, that nature of a true Individualist to sympathize with a friend's success.
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I have put my talent into writing, my genius I have saved for living.
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With an evening coat and a white tie, anybody, even a stock broker, can gain a reputation for being civilized.
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A truth ceases to be true when more than one person believes in it.
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This wallpaper is dreadful, one of us will have to go.
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Yet each man kills the thing he loves, By each let this be heard, Some do it with a bitter look, Some with a flattering word, The coward does it with a kiss, The brave man with a sword! Some kill their love when they are young, And some when they are old; Some strangle with the hands of Lust, Some with the hands of Gold: The kindest use a knife, because The dead so soon grow cold. Some love too little, some too long, Some sell, and others buy; Some do the deed with many tears, And some without a sigh: For each man kills the thing he loves, Yet each man does not die.
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To do nothing at all is the most difficult thing in the world, the most difficult and the most intellectual.
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Every one of course represents the spirit of his age, but there is an eternal aspect of the Spirit of every age which may be caught. To recreate the past from the mutilated fragments of the present is the task of the Historian.
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The whole theory of modern education is radically unsound. Fortunately in England, at any rate, education produces no effect whatsoever. If it did, it would prove a serious danger to the upper classes, and probably lead to acts of violence.
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The play was a great success, but the audience was a disaster.
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Walt Whitman and Emerson are the poets who have given the world more than anyone else. Perhaps Whitman is not so widely read in England, but England never appreciates a poet until he is dead.
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Private information is practically the source of every large modern fortune.
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I know not whether Laws be right,Or whether Laws be wrong;All that we know who lie in gaolIs that the wall is strong;And that each day is like a year,A year whose days are long.
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It is the confession, not the priest, that gives us absolution.
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By the artificial separation of soul and body men have invented a Realism that is vulgar and an Idealism that is void.
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Young people, nowadays, imagine that money is everything, and when they grow older they know it.
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After a good quality dinner one will be able to forgive anybody, still one's own relations.
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I have the kiss of Walt Whitman still on my lips.
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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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Punctuality is the thief of time.
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He is fond of being misunderstood. It gives him a post of vantage.
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I played with an idea, and grew willful; tossed it into the air; transformed it; let it escape and recaptured it; made it iridescent with fancy, and winged it with paradox.
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The English public, as a mass, takes no interest in a work of art until it is told that the work in question is immoral.
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Philosophies fall away like sand, and creeds follow on another like the withered leaves of Autumn.