Oscar Wilde Quotes
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Everybody in American seems in a rush to catch a train.
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History is merely gossip.
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I am jealous of everything whose beauty does not die. I am jealous of the portrait you have painted of me. Why should it keep what I must lose? Every moment that passes takes something from me and gives something to it. Oh, if it were only the other way! If the picture could change, and I could be always what I am now! Why did you paint it? It will mock me some day—mock me horribly!
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I approve of any activity that requires the wearing of special clothing.
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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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How else but through a broken heartMay Lord Christ enter in?
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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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One should never listen. To listen is a sign of indifference to one's hearers.
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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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Bad manners make a journalist.
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Sphinxes without secrets.
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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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It is only the superficial qualities that last. Man's deeper nature is soon found out.
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The security of Society lies in custom and unconscious instinct, and the basis of the stability of Society, as a healthy organism, is the complete absence of any intelligence amongst its members.
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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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Friendship never forgets. That is the wonderful thing about it.
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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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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 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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Indeed, so far from being humorous, the male American is the most abnormally serious creature who ever existed.. It is only fair to admit that he can exaggerate, but even his exaggeration has a rational basis. It is not founded on wit or fancy; it does not spring from any poetic imagination.
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A red rose is not selfish because it wants to be a red rose. It would be horribly selfish if it wanted all the other flowers in the garden to be both red and roses.
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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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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...