Oscar Wilde Quotes
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I'm so smart, I read and understand Hegel.
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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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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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I am afraid he has one of those terribly weak natures that are susceptible to influence.
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It is a very dangerous thing to know one’s friends.
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You like every one; that is to say, you are indifferent to every one.
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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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Education is an admirable thing.
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The final mystery is oneself... Who can calculate the orbit of his own soul.
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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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The artist is the creator of beautiful things. To reveal art and conceal the artist is art's aim.
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Her love was trembling in laughter on her lips.
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The universe is God. I am God so that means I am the universe.
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I treated Art as the supreme reality and life as a mere mode of fiction.
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Ah! Somehow life is bigger after all Than any painted angel could we see The God that is within us!
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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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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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The morality of art consists in the perfect use of an imperfect medium.
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Tea is the only simple pleasure left to us.
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Your duty to get married. You can't always be living for pleasure!
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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 State is to make what is useful. The individual is to make what is beautiful.
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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.