Oscar Wilde Quotes
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When a man is old enough to do wrong he should be old enough to do right also.
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Chrysanthemums from gilded argosy Unload their gaudy senseless merchandise.
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Anybody can sympathise with all the sufferings of the pal, nevertheless it involves an extremely great mother nature to sympathise by using a friend's achievement.
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The past is of no importance. The present is of no importance. It is with the future that we have to deal. For the past is what man should not have been. The present is what man ought not to be. The future is what artists are.
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There is only good art and mediocre art.
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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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Perhaps there may come into my art also, no less than into my life, a still deeper note, one of greater unity of passion, and directness of impulse. Not width but intensity is the true aim of modern art. We are no longer in art concerned with the type. It is with the exception that we have to do. I cannot put my sufferings into any form they took, I need hardly say. Art only begins where Imitation ends, but something must come into my work, of fuller memory of words perhaps, of richer cadences, of more curious effects, of simpler architectural order, of some aesthetic quality at any rate.
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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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There are moments when art attains almost to the dignity of manual labor.
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Perhaps one never seems so much at ones ease as when one has to play a part.
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Women are a decorative sex. They never have anything to say, but they say it charmingly.
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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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He is some brainless, beautiful creature, who should always be here in winter when we have no flowers to look at, and always here in the summer when we want something to chill our intelligence.
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A man is called affected, nowadays, if he dresses as he likes to dress. But in doing that he is acting in a perfectly natural manner. Affectation, in such matters, consists in dressing according to the views of one's neighbour, whose views, as they are the views of the majority, will probably be extremely stupid.
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Lord Illingworth: Discontent is the first step in the progress of a man or a nation.
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To stake all one's life on a single moment, to risk everything on one throw, whether the stake be power or pleasure, I care not - there is no weakness in that.
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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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People fashion their God after their own understanding. They make their God first and worship him afterwards.
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But then one regrets the loss even of one's worst habits. Perhaps one regrets them the most. They are such an essential part of one's personality.
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Sphinxes without secrets.
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Ah, on what little things does happiness depend.
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In the old times men carried out their rights for themselves as they lived, but nowadays every baby seems born with a social manifesto in its mouth much bigger than itself.
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But the bravest man among us is afraid of himself.
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You can have your secret as long as I have your heart.