Oscar Wilde Quotes
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When I think of all the harm the Bible has done, I despair of ever writing anything to equal it.
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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.
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Intuition is a strange instinct that tells a woman she is right, whether she is or not.
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When I was young, I was no one. Now, I'm worldwilde.
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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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I tremble with pleasure when I think that on the very day of my leaving prison both the laburnum and the lilac will be blooming in the gardens, and that I shall see the wind stir into restless beauty the swaying gold of the one, and make the other toss the pale purple of its plumes, so that all the air shall be Arabia for me.
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I analyzed you, though you did not adore me.
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He wants to enslave you. I shudder at the thought of being free.
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Life is too short to learn German.
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I must decline your invitation owing to a subsequent engagement.
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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.
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There were moments when he looked on evil simply as a mode through which he could realize his conception of the beautiful.
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Most people are boring and stupid.
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It is only very ugly or very beautiful women who ever hide their faces.
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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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We have little time and lots to do, lets take time for everything we do.
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Women, as some witty Frenchman once put it, inspire us with the desire to do masterpieces and always prevent us from carrying them out.
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I should have remembered that when one is going to lead an entirely new life, one requires regular and wholesome meals.
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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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No woman should have a memory. Memory in a woman is the beginning of dowdiness. One can always tell from a woman's bonnet whether she has got a memory or not.
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What between the duties expected of one during one's lifetime, and the duties exacted from one after one's death, land has ceased to be either a profit or a pleasure. It gives one position, and prevents one from keeping it up. That's all that can be said about land.
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Niagara Falls is simply a vast unnecessary amount of water going over the wrong way and then falling over unnecessary cliffs...The wonder would be if the water did not fall.
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If it is not nailed to the floor, it's mine. If I can pry it loose, it is not nailed down.
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The weather is entrancing, but in my heart there is no sun.