Oscar Wilde Quotes
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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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I don't mind plain women being puritans. It is the only excuse they have for being plain.
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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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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.
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On an occasion of this kind it becomes more than a moral duty to speak one's mind. It becomes a pleasure.
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I am thoroughly sick of pearls. They make one look so plain, so good and so intellectual.
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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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Lord Illingworth told me this morning that there was an orchid there as beautiful as the seven deadly sins.
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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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I was disappointed in Niagara -- most people must be disappointed in Niagara. Every American bride is taken there, and the sight of the stupendous waterfall must be one of the earliest, if not the keenest, disappointments in American married life.
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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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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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The moment that an artist takes notice of what other people want, and tries to supply the demand, he ceases to be an artist.
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What the hell is an oboe?
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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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An ordinary man away from home giving advice.
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Dear Prince, I must leave you, but I will never forget you, and next spring I will bring you back two beautiful jewels in place of those you have given away. The ruby shall be redder than a red rose, and the sapphire shall be as blue as the great sea.
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Being natural is simply a pose, and the most irritating pose I know.
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Art persists, it timelessly continues.
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There is much to be said in favor of modern journalism. By giving us the opinions of the uneducated, it keeps us in touch with the ignorance of the community. By carefully chronicling the current events of contemporary life, it shows us of what very little importance such events really are. By invariably discussing the unnecessary, it makes us understand what things are requisite for culture, and what are not.
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Life is too short to learn German.
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No theory of life seemed to him to be of any importance compared with life itself.
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Life! Life! Don't let us go to life for our fulfillment or our experience. It is a thing narrowed by circumstances, incoherent in its utterance, and without that fine correspondence of form and spirit which is the only thing that can satisfy the artistic.
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Young people, nowadays, imagine that money is everything, and when they grow older they know it.