Oscar Wilde Quotes
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Personality must be accepted for what it is. You mustn't mind that a poet is a drunk, rather that drunks are not always poets.
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There is nothing that art cannot express.
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An idea that isn't risky is hardly worth calling an idea.
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London is full of women who trust their husbands. One can always recognize them. They look so thoroughly unhappy.
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Well, I know, of course, how important it is not to keep a business engagement, if one wants to retain any sense of the beauty of life.
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An idea that is not dangerous is unworthy of being called an idea at all.
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I made art a philosophy, and philosophy an art: I altered the minds of men, and the colour of things: I awoke the imagination of my century so that it created myth and legend around me: I summed up all things in a phrase, all existence in an epigram: whatever I touched I made beautiful.
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It is curious how vanity helps the successful man and wrecks the failure.
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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 analyzed you, though you did not adore me.
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Don't use big words. They mean so little.
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As for the virtuous poor, one can pity them of course, but one cannot possibly admire them.
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Really, this horrid House of Commons quite ruins our husbands for us. I think the Lower House by far the greatest blow to a happy married life that there has been since that terrible thing called the Higher Education of Women was invented.
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You and I will always be friends. Yet you poisoned me with a book once. I should not forgive that.
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He would stab his best friend for the sake of writing an epigram on his tombstone.
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I never forget a face, but in your case I'll make an exception.
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Society produces rogues, and education makes one rogue cleverer than another.
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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 not wise to find symbols in everything that one sees. It makes life too full of terrors.
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There are works which wait, and which one does not understand for a long time; the reason is that they bring answers to questions which have not yet been raised; for the question often arrives a terribly long time after the answer.
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They flaunt their conjugal felicity in one's face, as if it were the most fascinating of sins.
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It's not whether you win or lose, it's how you place the blame.
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All criticism is a form of autobiography.
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Newspapers have degenerated. They may now be absolutely relied upon.