Oscar Wilde Quotes

My dear fellow, you forget that we are in the native land of the hypocrite.

There is a luxury in self-reproach. When we blame ourselves, we feel that no one else has a right to blame us. It is the confession, not the priest, that gives us absolution.

I don't want to see him alone. He says things that annoy me. He gives me good advice.

There is nothing like race, is there?

It has been said that the great events of the world take place in the brain.It is in the brain, and the brain only, that the great sins of the world take place also.

JACKYour duty as a gentleman calls you back. ALGERNONMy duty as a gentleman has never interfered with my pleasures in the smallest degree.

In fact, now you mention the subject, I have been very bad in my own small way.I don't think you should be so proud of that, though I am sure it must have been very pleasant.

LADY BRACKNELLI had some crumpets with Lady Harbury, who seems to me to be living entirely for pleasure now.ALGERNONI hear her hair has turned quite gold from grief.

The mutilation of the savage has its tragic survival in the self-denial that mars our lives.

My gods dwell in temples made with hands.

And Beauty is a form of Genius - is higher, indeed, than Genius, as it needs no explanation.

Don't be led astray into the paths of virtue.

His principles were out of date, but there was a good deal to be said for his prejudices.

People cry out against the sinner, yet it is not the sinful, but the stupid, who are our shame. There is no sin except stupidity.

The only way to atone for being occasionally a little over-dressed is by being always absolutely over-educated.

It is the duty of every father... to write fairy tales for his children.

Lips that Shakespeare taught to speak have whispered their secret in my ear. I have had the arms of Rosalind around me, and kissed Juliet on the mouth.

Why should he watch the hideous corruption of his soul?

Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious

Every impulse that we strive to strangle broods in the mind and poisons us.

Oscar Wilde said that sunsets were not valued because we could not pay for sunsets. But Oscar Wilde was wrong

Those who find beautiful meanings in beautiful things are the cultivated. For these there is hope.

I can now recreate life in a way that was hidden from me, before.'A dream of form in days of thought:

You told me you had destroyed it.""I was wrong. It has destroyed me.

because to influence a person is to give one's own soul.

What nonsense people talk about happy marriages!" exclaimed Lord Henry. " A man can be happy with any woman, as long as he does not love her.

He would never again tempt innocence. He would be good.

She lives in the poetry she cannot write.

Anybody can have common sense, povided that they have no imagination

. . . try as we may we cannot get behind things to the reality. And the terrible reason may be that there is no reality in things apart from their appearances.

But do let us go. Dorian, you must not stay here any longer. It is not good for one's morals to see bad acting.

He repeated her name over and over again. The birds that were singing in the dew-drenched garden seemed to be telling the flowers about her.

I will love you always, because you will always be worthy of love.

I love talking about nothing, father. It is the only thing I know anything about.

Indeed, as a rule, everybody turns out to be somebody else.

Ah! that is the great thing in life, to live the truth.

I don't want to earn a living, I want to live.

I have forgotten all about my school days. I have a vague impression that they were detestable.

There were poisons so subtle that to know their properties one had to sicken of them. There were maladies so strange that one had to pass through them if one sought to understand their nature.

There was something tragic in a friendship so colored by romance.

Only dull people are brilliant at breakfast,

Never mind what I say. I am always saying what I shouldn't say. In fact, I usually say what I really think. A great mistake nowadays. It makes one so liable to be misunderstood.

My doctor says I must not have any serious conversation after seven [o'clock]. It makes me talk in my sleep.

The pure and simple truth is, the truth is never pure and simple.

The drawback of stealing a thing, is that one never knows how wonderful the thing that one steals is.

For his mourners will be outcast menAnd outcasts always mourn...

Any fool can make history, but it takes a genius to write it.

Yet the roses are not less lovely for all that

Good artists exist simply in what they make, and consequently are perfectly uninteresting in what they are.

For the recognition of private property has really harmed Individualism, and obscured it, by confusing a man with what he possesses.