Oscar Wilde Quotes
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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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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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Judges, like the criminal classes, have their lighter moments.
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What you read when you don't have to...
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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 trouble with the lower classes is that they lack the sense of tragedy given to them by the upper classes.
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Things are because we see them, and what we see, and how we see it, depends on the Arts that influenced us. To look at a thing is very different from seeing a thing. One does not see anything until one sees its beauty. Then, and then only, does it comes into existence.
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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 prefer women with a past. They're always so damned amusing to talk to.
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If the poor only had profiles there would be no difficulty in solving the problem of poverty.
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The final mystery is oneself... Who can calculate the orbit of his own soul.
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I often take exercise. Why only yesterday I had breakfast in bed.
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The universe is God. I am God so that means I am the universe.
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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'm so smart, I read and understand Hegel.
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You like every one; that is to say, you are indifferent to every one.
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Some things are too important to be taken seriously.
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One must have a heart of stone to read the death of little Nell without laughing.
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I am afraid he has one of those terribly weak natures that are susceptible to influence.
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But what is the good of friendship if one cannot say exactly what one means? Anybody can say charming things and try to please and to flatter, but a true friend always says unpleasant things, and does not mind giving pain. Indeed, if he is a really true friend he prefers it, for he knows that then he is doing good.
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We have quite the same ideas. No; I think our ideas are quite different. But he has been most pleasant.
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Education is an admirable thing.
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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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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.