Oscar Wilde Quotes
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The one advantage of playing with fire...is that no one ever gets singed. It is the people who don't know how to play with it who get burned up.
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Anybody can write a three-volume novel. It merely requires a complete ignorance of both life and literature.
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I'm too old to know everything.
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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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An egg is always an adventure; the next one may be different.
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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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Examinations, are pure humbug from beginning to end. If a man is a gentleman, he knows quite enough, and if he is not a gentleman, whatever he knows is bad for him.
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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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Mrs. Allonby: No man does. That is his.
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What seems to us as bitter trials are often blessings in disguise in the future. But only if we set out to make this true and anticipate it so we look for the blessings until we find them.
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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 actor is part illusionist, part artist, part ham.
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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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In art, the public accept what has been, because they cannot alter it, not because they appreciate it. They swallow their classics whole, and never taste them.
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As yet, Bernard Shaw hasn't become prominent enough to have any enemies, but none of his friends like him.
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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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The cities of America are inexpressibly tedious. The Bostonians take their learning too sadly; culture with them is an accomplishment rather than an atmosphere; their Hub, as they call it, is the paradise of prigs. Chicago is a sort of monster-shop, full of bustles and bores. Political life at Washington is like political life in a suburban vestry. Baltimore is amusing for a week, but Philadelphia is dreadfully provincial; and though one can dine in New York one could not dwell there.
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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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If you cannot write well, you cannot think well; if you cannot think well, others will do your thinking for you.
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Genius is born-not paid.
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I have never met any really wicked person before. I feel rather frightened. I am so afraid he will look just like every one else.
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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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Nature, which makes nothing durable, always repeats itself so that nothing which it makes may be lost.
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I am sick of women who love one. Women who hate one are much more interesting.