Oscar Wilde Quotes
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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.
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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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I never change, except in my affections.
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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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No one expects the Spanish Inquisition!
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The weather is entrancing, but in my heart there is no sun.
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Well, in the first place girls never marry the men they flirt with. Girls don't think it right.
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So lets knock a couple back and make some noise.
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God knows; I won't be an Oxford don anyhow. I'll be a poet, a writer, a dramatist. Somehow or other I'll be famous, and if not famous, I'll be notorious. Or perhaps I'll lead the life of pleasure for a time and then—who knows?—rest and do nothing. What does Plato say is the highest end that man can attain here below? To sit down and contemplate the good. Perhaps that will be the end of me too.
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In England it is enough for a man to try and produce any serious, beautiful work to lose all his rights as a citizen.
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Most people are boring and stupid.
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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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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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When one is in town one amuses oneself. When one is in the country one amuses other people. It is excessively boring.
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A man's very highest moment is, I have no doubt at all, when he kneels in the dust, and beats his breast, and tells all the sins of his life.
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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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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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An ordinary man away from home giving advice.
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The growing influence of women is the one reassuring thing in our political life.
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The girl never really lived, and so she has never really died.
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The only form of fiction in which real characters do not seem out of place is history. In novels they are detestable.
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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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All that we know who lie in gaol - Is that the wall is strong; And that each day is like a year, A year whose days are long.
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It's not whether you win or lose, it's how you place the blame.