Oscar Wilde Quotes
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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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Education is an admirable thing.
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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 treated Art as the supreme reality and life as a mere mode of fiction.
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The secret of remaining young is never to have an emotion that is unbecoming.
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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 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 morality of art consists in the perfect use of an imperfect medium.
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It is a very dangerous thing to know one’s friends.
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Marriage is hardly a thing one can do now and then, except in America.
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I'm sure I don't know half the people who come to my house. Indeed, from all I hear, I shouldn't like to.
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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 birds that were singing in the dew-drenched garden seemed to be telling the flowers about her.
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Her love was trembling in laughter on her lips.
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Music makes one feel so romantic - at least it always gets on one's nerves -which is the same thing nowadays.
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Tea is the only simple pleasure left to us.
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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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Thinking is wonderful, but the experience is even more wonderful.
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The greatest of all sins is stupidity.
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He is fairer than the morning star, and whiter than the moon. For his body I would give my soul, and for his love I would surrender heaven.
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The liar at any rate recognizes that recreation, not instruction, is the aim of conversation, and is a far more civilized being than the blockhead who loudly expresses his disbelief in a story which is told simply for the amusement of the company.
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He is never more present in my work than when no image of him is there.
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Your duty to get married. You can't always be living for pleasure!
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The State is to make what is useful. The individual is to make what is beautiful.