Oscar Wilde Quotes
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Art should never be popular.
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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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God grant me the serenity to accept that people are ignorant, the courage to uphold the law when I'm hostile, & the wisdom to realize that murder is illegal.
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Imagination is imitative-the real innovation lies in criticism.
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Truth is independent of facts always.
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I'm too old to know everything.
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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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I like my food dry. Not sick, not even dying, dead.
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We who live in prison, and in whose lives there is no event but sorrow, have to measure time by throbs of pain, and the record of bitter moments.
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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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It's not hard to get the ideas when they come. They just come... it's painful waiting for them.
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Friendship never forgets. That is the wonderful thing about it.
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You can't possibly ask me to go without having some dinner. It's absurd. I never go without my dinner. No one ever does, except vegetarians and people like that.
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The sky was pure opal now.
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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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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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At twilight, nature is not without loveliness, though perhaps its chief use is to illustrate quotations from the poets.
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The best work in literature is always done by those who do not depend on it for their daily bread and the highest form of literature, Poetry, brings no wealth to the singer.
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I feel that if I kept it secret it might grow in my mind and take its place with the other terrible thoughts that gnaw me.
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A book or poem which has no pity in it had better not be written.
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She doth mean the earth to me! By earth, I actually mean dust.
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Children start out loving their parents, but as they grow older and discover their parents are human, they become judgmental. And sometimes, when they mature, they forgive their parents, especially when they discover they are also human.
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An egg is always an adventure; the next one may be different.
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Society takes upon itself the right to inflict appalling punishment on the individual, but it also has the supreme vice of shallowness, and fails to realize what it has done. When the man's punishment is over, it leaves him to himself; that is to say, it abandons him at the very moment when its highest duty towards him begins.