Oscar Wilde Quotes
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His sudden mad love for Sibyl Vane was a psychological phenomenon of no small interest. There was no doubt that curiosity had much to do with it, curiosity and the desire for new experiences; yet it was not a simple but rather a very complex passion.
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Never buy a thing you don't want merely because it is dear.
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They are so pleased to find out other people's secrets. It distracts public attention from their own.
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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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Romantic literature is in effect imaginative lying.
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A woman will flirt with anybody in the world as long as other people are looking on.
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I threw the pearl of my soul into a cup of wine. I went down the primrose path to the sound of flutes. I lived on honeycomb.
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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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I have no objection to anyone's sex life as long as they don't practice it in the street and frighten the horses.
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The soul is a terrible reality. It can be bought and sold and bartered away.
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I am sorry my life is so marred and maimed by extravagance. But I cannot live otherwise. I, at any rate, pay the penalty of suffering.
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Do not be afraid of the past. If people tell you that it is irrevocable, do not believe them. The past, the present and the future are but one moment in the sight of God, in whose sight we should try to live. Time and space, succession and extension, are merely accidental conditions of thought. The imagination can transcend them.
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Surely Love is a wonderful thing. It is more precious than emeralds, and dearer than fine opals. Pearls and pomegranates cannot buy it, nor is it set forth in the marketplace. It may not be purchased of the merchants, for can it be weighed out in the balance for gold.
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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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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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Sphinxes without secrets.
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Beautiful things like beautiful sins belong to the rich.
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The evolution of man is slow. The injustice of men is great.
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I don't want money. It is only people who pay their bills who want that, and I never pay mine.
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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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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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No artist is ever morbid. The artist can express everything.
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Missionaries are going to reform the world whether it wants to or not.
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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.