|
52edd59
|
Jack: "Gwendolen, wait here for me." Gwendolen: "If you are not too long, I will wait here for you all my life."
|
|
|
Oscar Wilde |
|
bf12ff8
|
I am but too conscious of the fact that we are born in an age when only the dull are treated seriously, and I live in terror of not being misunderstood. Don't degrade me into the position of giving you useful information. Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.
|
|
|
Oscar Wilde |
|
ec0294c
|
I don't play accurately--any one can play accurately--but I play with wonderful expression. As far as the piano is concerned, sentiment is my forte. I keep science for Life.
|
|
|
Oscar Wilde |
|
65d8abb
|
Nothing spoils romance so much as a sense of humor in the woman
|
|
satire
|
Oscar Wilde |
|
f2bc7df
|
I never travel without my diary. One should always have something sensational to read in the train.
|
|
reading
sensational
|
Oscar Wilde |
|
3e65495
|
I never take any notice to what common people say, and I never interfere with what charming people do.
|
|
|
Oscar Wilde |
|
9a27a86
|
Hesitation of any kind is a sign of mental decay in the young, of physical weakness in the old.
|
|
procrastination
|
Oscar Wilde |
|
73c3c63
|
The only horrible thing in the world is ennui.
|
|
|
Oscar Wilde |
|
4c4f616
|
Most people live for love and admiration. But it is by love and admiration that we should live.
|
|
|
Oscar Wilde |
|
7d42565
|
Ignorance is like a delicate exotic fruit; touch it and the bloom is gone.
|
|
|
Oscar Wilde |
|
a4cc612
|
Even before I met you I was far from indifferent to you.
|
|
|
Oscar Wilde |
|
b24dbd8
|
For he who lives more lives than one more deaths than one must die.
|
|
life
|
Oscar Wilde |
|
5cdff91
|
Conscience makes egotists of us all.
|
|
|
Oscar Wilde |
|
6a10ee1
|
I love scrapes. They are the only things that are never serious." "Oh, that's nonsense, Algy. You never talk anything but nonsense." "Nobody ever does."
|
|
|
Oscar Wilde |
|
3eba277
|
A beautiful woman risking everything for a mad passion. A few wild weeks of happiness cut short by a hideous, treacherous crime. Months of voiceless agony, and then a child born in pain. The mother snatched away by death, the boy left to solitude and the tyranny of an old and loveless man. Yes, it was an interesting background. It posed the lad, made him more perfect as it were. Behind every exquisite thing that existed, there was something..
|
|
|
Oscar Wilde |
|
bef3170
|
The one charm about the past is that it is the past. But women never know when the curtain has fallen.
|
|
|
Oscar Wilde |
|
734ddaf
|
I am sick to death of cleverness. Everybody is clever nowadays. You can't go anywhere without meeting clever people. The thing has become an absolute public nuisance. I wish to goodness we had a few fools left.
|
|
nuisance
fools
|
Oscar Wilde |
|
c0e0771
|
Fashion is what one wears oneself. What is unfashionable is what other people wear. Just as vulgarity is simply the conduct of other people. And falsehoods the truths of other people. Other people are quite dreadful. The only possible society is oneself. To love oneself is the beginning of a life-long romance.
|
|
oscar-wilde
fashion
|
Oscar Wilde |
|
7a10f27
|
Oh, don't cough, Ernest. When one is dictating one should speak fluently and not cough. Besides, I don't know how to spell a cough.
|
|
|
Oscar Wilde |
|
13a0018
|
As for omens, there is no such thing as an omen. Destiny does not send us heralds. She is too wise or too cruel for that.
|
|
|
Oscar Wilde |
|
6ab5e74
|
We live in an age that reads too much to be wise, and that thinks too much to be beautiful.
|
|
|
Oscar Wilde |
|
3c169fd
|
Life cheats us with shadows. We ask it for pleasure.
|
|
|
Oscar Wilde |
|
e061160
|
An artist should create beautiful things, but should put nothing of his own life into them.
|
|
artists
|
Oscar Wilde |
|
bc0776d
|
His sudden mad love for Sibyl Vane was a psychological phenomenon of no small interest. There was no doubt that curiosity had much to do with it, curiosity and the desire for new experiences; yet it was not a simple but rather a very complex passion.
|
|
passion
life
love
curiosity
desire
psychology
|
Oscar Wilde |
|
1230820
|
Love is not fashionable anymore; the poets have killed it.
|
|
|
Oscar Wilde |
|
4782e1e
|
From the moment I met you, your personality had the most extraordinary influence over me. I was dominated, soul brain and power.
|
|
personality
kindred-spirits
brain
connection
power
soul
|
Oscar Wilde |
|
c0c3d49
|
It seems to me that we all look at Nature too much, and live with her too little. I discern great sanity in the Greek attitude. They never chattered about sunsets, or discussed whether the shadows on the grass were really mauve or not. But they saw that the sea was for the swimmer, and the sand for the feet of the runner. They loved the trees for the shadow that they cast, and the forest for its silence at noon.
|
|
|
Oscar Wilde |
|
bad2e52
|
I like Wagner's music better than anybody's. It is so loud that one can talk the whole time without other people hearing what one says.
|
|
|
Oscar Wilde |
|
8607cae
|
I hope you hair curls naturally, does it? Yes, darling, with a little help from others.
|
|
|
Oscar Wilde |
|
8ad2100
|
Dear Prince, I must leave you, but I will never forget you, and next spring I will bring you back two beautiful jewels in place of those you have given away. The ruby shall be redder than a red rose, and the sapphire shall be as blue as the great sea.
|
|
|
Oscar Wilde |
|
d201971
|
To get into the best society, nowadays, one has either to feed people, amuse people, or shock people - that is all!
|
|
|
Oscar Wilde |
|
629f33b
|
The proper basis for marriage is a mutual misunderstanding.
|
|
|
Oscar Wilde |
|
d927ce6
|
Every great man nowadays has his disciples, and it is usually Judas who writes the biography.
|
|
|
Oscar Wilde |
|
0ed8f92
|
LADY BRACKNELL. May I ask if it is in this house that your invalid friend Mr. Bunbury resides? ALGERNON. [Stammering.] Oh! No! Bunbury doesn't live here. Bunbury is somewhere else at present. In fact, Bunbury is dead, LADY BRACKNELL. Dead! When did Mr. Bunbury die? His death must have been extremely sudden. ALGERNON. [Airily.] Oh! I killed Bunbury this afternoon. I mean poor Bunbury died this afternoon. LADY BRACKNELL. What did he die of? A..
|
|
|
Oscar Wilde |
|
9cdcd12
|
Every woman becomes their mother. That's their tragedy. And no man becomes his. That's his tragedy.
|
|
|
Oscar Wilde |
|
2f7bbfc
|
Is insincerity such a terrible thing? I think not. It is merely a method by which we can multiply our personalities.
|
|
|
Oscar Wilde |
|
5696b8a
|
What is a cynic? A man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing.
|
|
|
Oscar Wilde |
|
11ff356
|
Experience is a question of instinct about life.
|
|
life
|
Oscar Wilde |
|
1dba61c
|
Nothing should be out of the reach of hope. Life is a hope.
|
|
|
Oscar Wilde |
|
700eaf2
|
we always misunderstood ourselves, and rarely understood others
|
|
|
Oscar Wilde |
|
fd93cf6
|
Questions are never indiscreet. Answers sometimes are.
|
|
|
Oscar Wilde |
|
885d6a0
|
I asked the question for the best reason possible, for the only reason, indeed, that excuses anyone for asking any question - simple curiosity.
|
|
the-picture-of-dorian-gray
|
Oscar Wilde |
|
3112687
|
There are few of us who have not sometimes wakened before dawn, either after one of those dreamless nights that make one almost enamoured of death, or one of those nights of horror and misshapen joy, when through the chambers of the brain sweep phantoms more terrible than reality itself, and instinct with that vivid life that lurks in all grotesques, and that lends to Gothic art its enduring vitality, this art being, one might fancy, especi..
|
|
|
Oscar Wilde |
|
cf1ddf7
|
When a man is old enough to do wrong he should be old enough to do right also.
|
|
|
Oscar Wilde |