Oscar Wilde Quotes
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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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At twilight, nature is not without loveliness, though perhaps its chief use is to illustrate quotations from the poets.
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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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It's not hard to get the ideas when they come. They just come... it's painful waiting for them.
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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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Behind the perfection of a man's style, must lie the passion of a man's soul.
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I'm too old to know everything.
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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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Friendship never forgets. That is the wonderful thing about it.
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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 like my food dry. Not sick, not even dying, dead.
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It is the stupid and the ugly who have the best of it in this world.
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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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The sky was pure opal now.
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The proper school to learn art is not life but art.
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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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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 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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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 absurd to say that the age of miracles is past. It has not yet begun.
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An egg is always an adventure; the next one may be different.
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Varnishing is the only artistic process with which Royal Academicians are thoroughly familiar.
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All the spring may be hidden in the single bud, and the low ground nest of the lark may hold the joy that is to herald the feet of many rose-red dawns.