Oscar Wilde Quotes
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Niagara Falls is simply a vast unnecessary amount of water going over the wrong way and then falling over unnecessary cliffs...The wonder would be if the water did not fall.
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Art should never be popular.
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It is only very ugly or very beautiful women who ever hide their faces.
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Well, in the first place girls never marry the men they flirt with. Girls don't think it right.
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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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What fire does not destroy, it hardens.
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Beautiful things like beautiful sins belong to the rich.
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It takes great deal of courage to see the world in all its tainted glory, and still to love it.
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There were times when it appeared to Dorian Gray that the whole of history was merely the record of his own life, not as he had lived it in act and circumstand, but as his imagination had created it for him, as it had been in his brain and in his passions. He felt that he had known them all, those strange terrible figures that had passed across the stage of the world and made sin so marvellous, and evil so full of subtlety. It seemed to him that in some mysterious way their lives had been his own.
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He lives the poetry that he cannot write. The others write the poetry that they dare not realize.
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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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That is the mission of art - to make us pause and look at a thing a second time.
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The stage is not merely the meeting place of all the arts, but is also the return of art to life.
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Truth is independent of facts always.
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You know more than you think you know, just as you know less than you want to know.
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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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It is the stupid and the ugly who have the best of it in this world.
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Intuition is a strange instinct that tells a woman she is right, whether she is or not.
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My dear young lady, there was a great deal of truth; I dare say, in what you said, and you looked very pretty while you said it, which is much more important.
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Never so sweet a repast as the Reaper's when you tread upon the threshold of a Quiznos.
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People fashion their God after their own understanding. They make their God first and worship him afterwards.
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The sky was pure opal now.
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Only the unimaginative can fail to find a reason for drinking Champagne.
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A sentimentalist—is a man who sees an absurd value in everything, and doesn't know the market price of any single thing.