Oscar Wilde Quotes
-
Industry is the root of all ugliness.
-
When I was young, I was no one. Now, I'm worldwilde.
-
It is only very ugly or very beautiful women who ever hide their faces.
-
On an occasion of this kind it becomes more than a moral duty to speak one's mind. It becomes a pleasure.
-
When I think of all the harm the Bible has done, I despair of ever writing anything to equal it.
-
You and I will always be friends. Yet you poisoned me with a book once. I should not forgive that.
-
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.
-
Lord Illingworth told me this morning that there was an orchid there as beautiful as the seven deadly sins.
-
I don't mind plain women being puritans. It is the only excuse they have for being plain.
-
And with tears of blood he cleansed the hand, The hand that held the steel: For only blood can wipe out blood, And only tears can heal.
-
Art is not to be taught in Academies. It is what one looks at, not what one listens to, that makes the artist. The real schools should be the streets.
-
My writing has gone to bits - like my character. I am simply a self-conscious nerve in pain.
-
I should have remembered that when one is going to lead an entirely new life, one requires regular and wholesome meals.
-
Give children beauty, not the record of bloody slaughters and barbarous brawls, as they call history, or of the latitude and longitude of places nobody cares to visit, as they call geography.
-
I was very much disappointed in the Atlantic Ocean.
-
Intuition is a strange instinct that tells a woman she is right, whether she is or not.
-
I have found that all ugly things are made by those who strive to make something beautiful, and that all beautiful things are made by those who strive to make something useful.
-
The whole theory of modern education is radically unsound. Fortunately in England, at any rate, education produces no effect whatsoever. If it did, it would prove a serious danger to the upper classes, and probably lead to acts of violence.
-
An ordinary man away from home giving advice.
-
What the hell is an oboe?
-
The weather is entrancing, but in my heart there is no sun.
-
No one expects the Spanish Inquisition!
-
There were moments when he looked on evil simply as a mode through which he could realize his conception of the beautiful.
-
It's not whether you win or lose, it's how you place the blame.