Oscar Wilde Quotes
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Like strange mechanical grotesques, Making fantastic arabesques, The shadows raced across the blind.
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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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The best people to work for are me, myself and I.
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Women's styles may change but their designs remain the same.
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How strange a thing this is! The Priest telleth me that the Soul is worth all the gold in the world, and the merchants say that it is not worth a clipped piece of silver.
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Hear no evil, speak no evil, and you won't be invited to cocktail parties.
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The only proper intoxication is conversation.
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This wallpaper is dreadful, one of us will have to go.
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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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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.
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Nobody ever commits a crime without doing something stupid.
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Conscience makes egotists of us all.
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Formerly we used to canonize our heroes. The modern method is to vulgarize them. Cheap editions of great books may be delightful, but cheap editions of great men are absolutely detestable.
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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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I won't belong to a club that accepts me as a member.
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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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The honest ratepayer and his healthy family have no doubt often mocked at the dome-like forehead of the philosopher, and laughed over the strange perspective of the landscape that lies beneath him. If they really knew who he was, they would tremble. For Chuang-tsǔ spent his life in preaching the great creed of Inaction, and in pointing out the uselessness of all things.
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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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Is it thy will that I should wax and wane, Barter my cloth of gold for hodden grey, And at thy pleasure weave that web of pain Whose brightest threads are each a wasted day?
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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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While one should always study the method of a great artist, one should never imitate his manner. The manner of an artist is essentially individual, the method of an artist is absolutely universal. The first personality, which no one should copy.
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Ah, on what little things does happiness depend.
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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 home seems to me to be the proper sphere for the man. And certainly once a man begins to neglect his domestic duties he becomes painfully effeminate, does he not?