Oscar Wilde Quotes
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I won't belong to a club that accepts me as a member.
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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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Whatever harsh criticisms may be passed on the construction of her sentences, she at least possesses that one touch of vulgarity that makes the whole world kin.
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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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I hate people who are not serious about meals. It is so shallow of them.
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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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Hear no evil, speak no evil, and you won't be invited to cocktail parties.
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Taking sides is the beginning of sincerity, and earnestness follows shortly afterwards, and the human being becomes a bore.
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He is really not so ugly after all, provided, of course, that one shuts one's eyes, and does not look at him.
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The moon in her chariot of pearl.
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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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A cigarette is the perfect type of a perfect pleasure. It is exquisite, and it leaves one unsatisfied. What more can one want?
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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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With an evening coat and a white tie, anybody, even a stock broker, can gain a reputation for being civilized.
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The only proper intoxication is conversation.
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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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Like dear St. Francis of Assisi I am wedded to Poverty: but in my case the marriage is not a success.
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Credit is a young man's capital.
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The gods bestowed on Max the gift of perpetual old age.
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It was you I thought of all the time, I gave to them the love you did not need: lavished on them a love that was not theirs.
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When good Americans die, they go to Paris" "Where do bad Americans go?" "They stay in America.
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It is that deep spiritual affection that is as pure as it is perfect. It is beautiful, it is fine, it is the noblest form of affection. There is nothing unnatural about it.
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It is sweet to dance to violins When Love and Life are fair:To dance to flutes, to dance to lutesIs delicate and rare: But it is not sweet with nimble feeTo dance upon the air!
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To do nothing at all is the most difficult thing in the world, the most difficult and the most intellectual.