Oscar Wilde Quotes
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Every thing to be true must become a religion.
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The people who have adored me — there have not been very many, but there have been some — have always insisted on living on, long after I had ceased to care for them, or they to care for me.
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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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The youth of the present day are quite monstrous. They have absolutely no respect for dyed hair.
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The birds that were singing in the dew-drenched garden seemed to be telling the flowers about her.
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I now see that sorrow, being the supreme emotion of which man is capable, is at once the type and test of all great art.
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Those who find beautiful meanings in beautiful things are the cultivated. For these there is hope. They are the elect to whom beautiful things mean only beauty.
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I like Wagner's music better than anybody's. It is so loud that one can talk the whole time without other people hearing what one says.
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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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Yet, even for us, there is left some loveliness of environment, and the dullness of tutors and professors matters very little when one can loiter in the grey cloisters at Magdalen, and listen to some flute-like voice singing in Waynfleete's chapel, or lie in the green meadow, among the strange snakespotted fritillaries, and watch the sunburnt noon smite to a finer gold the tower's gilded vanes, or wander up the Christ Church staircase beneath the vaulted ceiling's shadowy fans, or pass through the sculptured gateway of Laud's building in the College of St. John.
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Those who try to lead the people can only do so by following the mob. It is through the voice of one crying in the wilderness that the ways of the gods must be prepared.
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The moment one sits down to think, one becomes all nose, or all forehead, or something horrid.
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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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At twilight, nature is not without loveliness, though perhaps its chief use is to illustrate quotations from the poets.
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The man had killed the thing he loved, And so he had to die.
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I see the moon like a clipped piece of silver. Like gilded bees the stars cluster round her.
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I like my food dry. Not sick, not even dying, dead.
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M. Zola is determined to show that, if he has not got genius, he can at least be dull.
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I believe it is customary in good society to take some slight refreshment at five o'clock.
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A glass of absinthe is as poetical as anything in the world. What difference is there between a glass of absinthe and a sunset?
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She had a passion for secrecy, but she herself was merely a Sphinx without a secret.
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Imagination is imitative-the real innovation lies in criticism.
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A person who, because he has corns himself, always treads on other people's toes.
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The only one you need in your life is that person who shows you he needs you in his.