Oscar Wilde Quotes
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Thinking is wonderful, but the experience is even more wonderful.
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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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He had uttered a mad wish that he himself might remain untarnished, and the face on the canvas bear the burden of his passions and his sins; that the painted image might be seared with the lines of suffering and thought, and that he might keep all the delicate bloom and loveliness of his then just conscious boyhood.
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The one charm about the past is that it is the past. But women never know when the curtain has fallen.
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Bad manners make a journalist.
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It is the stupid and the ugly who have the best of it in this world.
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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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A book or poem which has no pity in it had better not be written.
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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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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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Friendship never forgets. That is the wonderful thing about it.
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Art should never be popular.
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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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What you read when you don't have to...
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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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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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To make men Socialists is nothing, but to make Socialism human is a great thing.
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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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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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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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Behind the perfection of a man's style, must lie the passion of a man's soul.
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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.