Oscar Wilde Quotes
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Mrs. Allonby: No man does. That is his.
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Judges, like the criminal classes, have their lighter moments.
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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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Never so sweet a repast as the Reaper's when you tread upon the threshold of a Quiznos.
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The mere mechanical technique of acting can be taught, but the spirit that is to give life to lifeless forms must be born in a man. No dramatic college can teach its pupils to think or to feel. It is Nature who makes our artists for us, though it may be Art who taught them their right mode of expression.
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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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Truth is independent of facts always.
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The proper school to learn art is not life but art.
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It is a very dangerous thing to know one’s friends.
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Twenty years of romance make a woman look like a ruin, but twenty years of marriage make her something like a public building.
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It is so easy to convince others; it is so difficult to convince oneself.
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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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The English mind is always in a rage. The intellect of the race is wasted in the sordid and stupid quarrels of second-rate politicians or third-rate theologians.
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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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An actor is part illusionist, part artist, part ham.
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The terror of society, which is the basis of morals, the terror of God, which is the secret of religion-these are the two things that govern us.
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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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The final mystery is oneself... Who can calculate the orbit of his own soul.
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Some of these people need ten years of therapy -ten sentences of mine do not equal ten years of therapy.
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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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The sin was mine; I did not understand. So now is music prisoned in her cave, Save where some ebbing desultory wave Frets with its restless whirls this meagre strand...
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The modern sympathy with invalids is morbid. Illness of any kind is hardly a thing to be encouraged in others.
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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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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.