Oscar Wilde Quotes
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Everybody in American seems in a rush to catch a train.
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Look at the moon. How strange the moon seems! She is like a woman rising from a tomb. She is like a dead woman. One might fancy she was looking for dead things.
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It is only the superficial qualities that last. Man's deeper nature is soon found out.
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The beautiful, passionate, ruined South, the land of magnolias and music, of roses and romance . . . living on the memory of crushing defeats.
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Cats are put on earth to remind us that not everything has a purpose.
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And suddenly the moon withdraws her sickle from the lightening skies, and to her sombre cavern flies, wrapped in a veil of yellow gauze.
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You are young. No hungry generations tread you down.... The past does not mock you with the ruins of a beauty the secret of whose creation you have lost...
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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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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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Out of the unreal shadows of night comes back the real life that we had known. We have to resume it where we had left off...
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Any preoccupation with ideas of what is right or wrong in conduct shows an arrested intellectual development.
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The only thing worse than being misquoted is being sentenced to two years' hard labour for buggery.
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He wanted to be where no one would know who he was. He wanted to escape from himself.
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Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live; it is asking others to live as one wishes to live. And unselfishness is letting other people's lives alone, not interfering with them. Selfishness always aims at uniformity of type. Unselfishness recognizes infinite variety of type as a delightful thing, accepts it, acquiesces in it, enjoys it.
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I have never killed anyone, but I have often read about some guy getting his ass taken out with great pleasure.
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Salomé, Salomé, dance for me. I pray thee dance for me. I am sad to-night. Yes, I am passing sad to-night. When I came hither I slipped in blood, which is an evil omen; and I heard, I am sure I heard in the air a beating of wings, a beating of giant wings. I cannot tell what they mean .... I am sad to-night. Therefore dance for me. Dance for me, Salomé, I beseech you. If you dance for me you may ask of me what you will, and I will give it you, even unto the half of my kingdom.
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There are few things easier than to live badly and die well.
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You can have your secret as long as I have your heart.
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No artist is ever morbid. The artist can express everything.
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I am afraid that you have been listening to the conversation of someone older than yourself. That is always a dangerous thing to do, and if you allow it to degenerate into a habit, you will find it absolutely fatal to any intellectual development.
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We quaff the cup of life with eager haste without draining it, instead of which it only overflows the brim - objects press around us, filling the mind with the throng of desires that wait upon them, so that we have no room for the thoughts of death.
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How else but through a broken heartMay Lord Christ enter in?
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A truly good woman comes in only two types: One who knows nothing and the other who knows everything.