Oscar Wilde Quotes
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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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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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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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The truth about the life of a man is not what he does, but the legend which he creates around himself.
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The only one you need in your life is that person who shows you he needs you in his.
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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.
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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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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.
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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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To make men Socialists is nothing, but to make Socialism human is a great thing.
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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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A person who, because he has corns himself, always treads on other people's toes.
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The man had killed the thing he loved, And so he had to die.
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It is a very dangerous thing to know one’s friends.
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I did not think I should be ever loved: do you indeed Love me so much as now you say you do? Ask of the sea-bird if it loves the sea, Ask of the roses if they love the rain, Ask of the little lark, that will not sing Till day break, if it loves to see the day: And yet, these are but empty images, Mere shadows of my love, which is a fire So great that all the waters of the main Can not avail to quench it.
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An actor is part illusionist, part artist, part ham.
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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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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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In England people actually try to be brilliant at breakfast. That is so dreadful of them! Only dull people are brilliant at breakfast.
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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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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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It's not hard to get the ideas when they come. They just come... it's painful waiting for them.
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Mrs. Allonby: No man does. That is his.
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Truth is independent of facts always.