Oscar Wilde Quotes
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Ah, on what little things does happiness depend.
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Anybody can have common sense, provided that they have no imagination.
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Nature is a wet place where large numbers of ducks fly overhead uncooked.
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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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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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She wore far too much rouge last night and not quite enough clothes. That is always a sign of despair in a woman.
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It is in the brain, and the brain only, that the great sins of the world take place also. You, Mr. Gray, you yourself, with yourrose-red youth and your rose-white boyhood, you have had passions that have made you afraid, thoughts that have filled you with terror, day-dreams and sleeping dreams whose mere memory might stain your cheek with shame…
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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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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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The best people to work for are me, myself and I.
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And the marvellous rose became crimson, like the rose of the eastern sky. Crimson was the girdle of petals, and crimson as a ruby was the heart.
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I have put my talent into writing, my genius I have saved for living.
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Women's styles may change but their designs remain the same.
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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?
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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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There is no mode of action, no form of emotion, that we do not share with the lower animals. It is only by language that we rise above them, or above each other-by language, which is the parent, and not the child, of thought.
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Don't run down dyed hair and painted faces. There is an extraordinary charm in them, sometimes.
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Credit is a young man's capital.
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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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Now and then it is a joy to have one's table red with wine and roses.
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Well I won't argue about the matter. You always want to argue about things. That is exactly what things were originally made for.
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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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Why can't these American women stay in their own country? They are always telling us that it is the paradise for women. It is. That is the reason why, like Eve, they are so excessively anxious to get out of it.
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People fashion their God after their own understanding. They make their God first and worship him afterwards.