Oscar Wilde Quotes
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Good intentions are invariably ungrammatical.
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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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I have a business appointment that I am anxious... to miss.
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The moon in her chariot of pearl.
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For us there is only one season, the season of sorrow. The very sun and moon seem taken from us.
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I never forget a face, but in your case I'll make an exception.
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I never saw a man who looked With such a wistful eye Upon that little tent of blue Which prisoners call the sky.
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The note of the perfect personality is not rebellion, but peace.
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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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Women have become so highly educated... that nothing should surprise us nowadays, except happy marriages.
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It is absurd to say that there are neither ruins nor curiosities in America when they have their mothers and their manners.
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Nobody of any real culture, for instance, ever talks nowadays about the beauty of sunset. Sunsets are quite old fashioned. To admire them is a distinct sign of provincialism of temperament. Upon the other hand they go on.
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If a man treats life artistically, his brain is his heart.
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If you want to be a doormat you have to lay yourself down first.
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I have put my talent into writing, my genius I have saved for living.
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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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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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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 poet is the supreme artist, for he is the master of colour and of form, and the real musician besides, and is lord over all life and all arts.
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Women's styles may change but their designs remain the same.
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Like strange mechanical grotesques, Making fantastic arabesques, The shadows raced across the blind.
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I worshipped you too much. I am punished for it. You worshipped yourself too much. We are both punished.
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Thinking is the most unhealthy thing in the world, and people die of it just as they die of any other disease. Fortunately, in England at any rate, thought is not catching.
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Don't run down dyed hair and painted faces. There is an extraordinary charm in them, sometimes.