Oscar Wilde Quotes
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Missionaries are going to reform the world whether it wants to or not.
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And, by the way, one of the most delightful things I find in America is meeting a people without prejudice — everywhere open to the truth.
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Art persists, it timelessly continues.
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America has never quite forgiven Europe for having been discovered somewhat earlier in history than itself.
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It is absurd to say that the age of miracles is past. It has not yet begun.
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If I am occasionally a little over-dressed, I make up for it by being always immensely over-educated.
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As a rule, I think they are quite impossible. Geniuses talk so much, don't they? Such a bad habit! And they are always thinking about themselves, when I want them to be thinking about me.
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I see the moon like a clipped piece of silver. Like gilded bees the stars cluster round her.
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Shakespeare might have met Rosencrantz and Guildenstern in the white streets of London, or seen the serving-men of rival houses bite their thumbs at each other in the open square; but Hamlet came out of his soul, and Romeo out of his passion.
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She is all the great heroines of the world in one. She is more than an individual. I love her, and I must make her love me. I want to make Romeo jealous. I want the dead lovers of the world to hear our laughter, and grow sad. I want a breath of our passion to stir dust into consciousness, to wake their ashes into pain.
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I would not a bit mind sleeping in the cool grass in summer, and when winter came on sheltering myself by the warm close-thatched rick, or under the penthouse of a great barn, provided I had love in my heart.
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I love the French language... it's a delightful language, especially to curse with. It's like whopping your ass with silk.
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Ah, on what little things does happiness depend! I have read all that the wise men have written, and all the secrets of philosophy are mine, yet for want of a red rose is my life made wretched.
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An egg is always an adventure; the next one may be different.
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She...can talk brillantly upon any subject provided she knows nothing about it.
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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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The form of government that is most suitable to the artist is no government at all. Authority over him and his art is ridiculous.
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Foxhunting... the unspeakable pursuing the inedible.
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Being natural is simply a pose, and the most irritating pose I know.
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I never came across anyone in whom the moral sense was dominant who was not heartless, cruel, vindictive, log-stupid, and entirely lacking in the smallest sense of humanity. Moral people, as they are termed, are simple beasts.
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Life would be dull without them.
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I have grown tired of the articulate utterances of men and things. The Mystical in Art, the Mystical in Life, the Mystical in Nature this is what I am looking for. It is absolutely necessary for me to find it somewhere.
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Rugby is a game for barbarians played by gentlemen. Football is a game for gentlemen played by barbarians.
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The English public, as a mass, takes no interest in a work of art until it is told that the work in question is immoral.