Oscar Wilde Quotes
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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 prefer women with a past. They're always so damned amusing to talk to.
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Mrs. Allonby: No man does. That is his.
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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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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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The birds that were singing in the dew-drenched garden seemed to be telling the flowers about her.
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Genius is born-not paid.
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An actor is part illusionist, part artist, part ham.
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The final mystery is oneself... Who can calculate the orbit of his own soul.
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I see the moon like a clipped piece of silver. Like gilded bees the stars cluster round her.
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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 modern sympathy with invalids is morbid. Illness of any kind is hardly a thing to be encouraged in others.
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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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Judges, like the criminal classes, have their lighter moments.
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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 nineteenth century is a turning point in history, simply on account of the work of two men, Darwin and Renan, the one the critic of the Book of Nature, the other the critic of the books of God. Not to recognise this is to miss the meaning of one of the most important eras in the progress of the world.
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You like every one; that is to say, you are indifferent to every one.
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I am sick of women who love one. Women who hate one are much more interesting.
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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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If the poor only had profiles there would be no difficulty in solving the problem of poverty.
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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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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 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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I'm so smart, I read and understand Hegel.