Oscar Wilde Quotes
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Philosophy is like a normal personal organizer, but it's smaller than a matchbox.
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There are moments when art attains almost to the dignity of manual labor.
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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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I hate vulgar realism in literature. The man who would call a spade a spade should be compelled to use one.
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If one were to live his life fully and completely were to give form to every feeling, expression to every thought, reality to every dream.
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It is sometimes said that the tragedy of an artist's life is that he cannot realise his ideal. But the true tragedy that dogs the steps of most artists is that they realise their ideal too absolutely. For, when the ideal is realised, it is robbed of its wonder and its mystery, and becomes simply a new starting-point for an ideal that is other than itself.
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I was very much disappointed in the Atlantic Ocean.
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The people who have adored me — there have not been very many, but there have been some — have always insisted on living on, long after I had ceased to care for them, or they to care for me.
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Women are a decorative sex. They never have anything to say, but they say it charmingly.
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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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You know we poor artists have to show ourselves in society from time to time, just to remind the public that we are not savages.
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She behaves as if she was beautiful. Most American women do. It is the secret of their charm.
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Life has been your art. You have set yourself to music. Your days are your sonnets.
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Oh, why will parents always appear at the wrong time? Some extraordinary mistake in nature, I suppose.
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The growing influence of women is the one reassuring thing in our political life.
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Believe me, no civilized man ever regrets a pleasure, and no uncivilized man ever knows what a pleasure is.
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It is only very ugly or very beautiful women who ever hide their faces.
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When I had to fill in my immigration papers, I gave my age as 19, and my profession as genius; I added that I had nothing to declare except my talent.
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There is a tiny yellow daffodil, The butterfly can see it from afar, Although one summer evening's dew could fill Its little cup twice over, ere the star Had called the lazy shepherd to his fold, And be no prodigal.
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Never buy a thing you don't want merely because it is dear.
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Greek dress was in its essence inartistic. Nothing should reveal the body but the body.
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Artists, like the Greek gods, are only revealed to one another.
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Ethics, like natural selection, make existence possible. Aesthetics, like sensual selection, make life lovely and wonderful, fill it with new forms, and give it progress, and variety and change.
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I approve of any activity that requires the wearing of special clothing.