Oscar Wilde Quotes
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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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It is the stupid and the ugly who have the best of it in this world.
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A red rose is not selfish because it wants to be a red rose. It would be horribly selfish if it wanted all the other flowers in the garden to be both red and roses.
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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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Bad manners make a journalist.
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Friendship never forgets. That is the wonderful thing about it.
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American girls are as clever at concealing their parents as English women are at concealing their past.
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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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Thinking is wonderful, but the experience is even more wonderful.
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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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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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That is the mission of art - to make us pause and look at a thing a second time.
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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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Art should never be popular.
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What you read when you don't have to...
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A book or poem which has no pity in it had better not be written.
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To make men Socialists is nothing, but to make Socialism human is a great thing.
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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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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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A person who, because he has corns himself, always treads on other people's toes.
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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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A man's very highest moment is, I have no doubt at all, when he kneels in the dust, and beats his breast, and tells all the sins of his life.
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It is absurd to say that the age of miracles is past. It has not yet begun.
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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.