Oscar Wilde Quotes
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At six o'clock we cleaned our cells, At seven all was still, But the sough and swing of a mighty wing The prison seemed to fill, For the Lord of Death with icy breath Had entered in to kill.
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There is no Mystery so great as Misery.
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Everybody in American seems in a rush to catch a train.
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I write because it gives me the greatest possible artistic pleasure to write. If my work pleases the few I am gratified. As for the mob, I have no desire to be a popular novelist. It is far too easy.
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Every woman is wrong until she cries.
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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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Any preoccupation with ideas of what is right or wrong in conduct shows an arrested intellectual development.
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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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In a very ugly and sensible age, the arts borrow, not from life, but from each other.
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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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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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At twilight, nature is not without loveliness, though perhaps its chief use is to illustrate quotations from the poets.
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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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A truly good woman comes in only two types: One who knows nothing and the other who knows everything.
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You can have your secret as long as I have your heart.
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How else but through a broken heartMay Lord Christ enter in?
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Tell me, when you are alone with him Max Beerbohm Sphinx, does he take off his face and reveal his mask?
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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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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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There are few things easier than to live badly and die well.
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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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Cats are put on earth to remind us that not everything has a purpose.
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Friendship never forgets. That is the wonderful thing about it.
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She behaves as if she was beautiful. Most American women do. It is the secret of their charm.