Oscar Wilde Quotes
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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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It is so easy to convince others; it is so difficult to convince oneself.
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Bad manners make a journalist.
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If you want to be a doormat you have to lay yourself down first.
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Twenty years of romance make a woman look like a ruin, but twenty years of marriage make her something like a public building.
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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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That is the mission of art - to make us pause and look at a thing a second time.
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Every woman is wrong until she cries.
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Beautiful things like beautiful sins belong to the rich.
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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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The youth of the present day are quite monstrous. They have absolutely no respect for dyed hair.
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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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Ah, on what little things does happiness depend.
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Art should never be popular.
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The proper school to learn art is not life but art.
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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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Bad artists always admire each other's work. They call it being large-minded and free from prejudice. But a truly great artist cannot conceive of life being shown, or beauty fashioned, under any conditions other than those he has selected.
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You should study the Peerage, Gerald. It is the one book a young man about town should know thoroughly, and it is the best thing in fiction the English have ever done.
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Behind the perfection of a man's style, must lie the passion of a man's soul.
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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.
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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.