Oscar Wilde Quotes
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Genius is born-not paid.
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The final mystery is oneself... Who can calculate the orbit of his own soul.
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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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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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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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I am sick of women who love one. Women who hate one are much more interesting.
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What you read when you don't have to...
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I often take exercise. Why only yesterday I had breakfast in bed.
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She had a passion for secrecy, but she herself was merely a Sphinx without a secret.
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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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Nature, which makes nothing durable, always repeats itself so that nothing which it makes may be lost.
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I prefer women with a past. They're always so damned amusing to talk to.
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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 universe is God. I am God so that means I am the universe.
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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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Judges, like the criminal classes, have their lighter moments.
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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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Some things are too important to be taken seriously.
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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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You like every one; that is to say, you are indifferent to every one.
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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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The artist is the creator of beautiful things. To reveal art and conceal the artist is art's aim.
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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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I'm so smart, I read and understand Hegel.