Wilde Quotes

If you put on an Oscar Wilde [play], it will interest those who are interested in Oscar Wilde. But it won't interest anybody else, because they won't get that wit.

Oscar Wilde said that sunsets were not valued because we could not pay for sunsets. But Oscar Wilde was wrong; we can pay for sunsets. We can pay for them by not being Oscar Wilde.

I am an unspeakable of the Oscar Wilde sort.

[Vincent Price] did Oscar Wilde on Broadway, and I think he probably did it because he was almost like an Oscar Wilde. He had that brilliant humor.

When in doubt, I read Oscar Wilde.

[Oscar Wilde's Salome screenplay] is not autobiographical in a sense where you go to my house and see my kids and stuff like that, but that's why I guess it's semi-autobiographical.

Oscar Wilde said the rich and the poor are equal - they can both sleep under the bridge. Right? Do they have a right? You're damn right they have a right!

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

Yet ruled he not long, so great had been his suffering, and so bitter the fire of his testing, for after the space of three years he died. And he who came after him ruled evilly.

Yet the roses are not less lovely for all that

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

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

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

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

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.

Only dull people are brilliant at breakfast,

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

. . . 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.

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

She lives in the poetry she cannot write.

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

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.

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

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

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

What people call insincerity is simply a method by which we can multiply our personalities.

Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live. It is asking other people to live as one wishes to live.

JACKYou're quite perfect, Miss Fairfax.GWENDOLENOh! I hope I am not that. It would leave no room for developments, and I intend to develop in many directions.

A true artist takes no notice whatever of the public. The public are to him non-existent

Those who find ugly meanings in beautiful things are corrupt without being charming. This is a fault.Those who find beautiful meanings in beautiful things are the cultivated. For these there is hope.

As for believing things, I can believe anything, provided that it is quite incredible.

Those who pay their bills on time are soon forgotten. It is only by not paying one's bills that one can hope to live in the memory of the commercial classes.

I am the prince of procrastination. It is my besetting sin. I never put off till tomorrow what I can possibly do - the day after

Travel improves the mind wonderfully, and does away with all one’s prejudices.

It is only when one has lost all things, that one knows that one possesses it

I'm a man of simple tastes. I'm always satisfied with the best.

So with curious eyes and sick surmiseWe watched him day by day, And wondered if each one of usWould end the self-same way, For none can tell to what red HellHis sightless soul may stray.

Lady Bracknell, I hate to seem inquisitive, but would you kindly inform me who I am?

Only dull people are brilliant at breakfast

Every single human being should be the fulfilment of a prophecy: for every human being should be the realisation of some ideal, either in the mind of God or in the mind of man.

It is perfectly monstrous, ' he said, at last, 'the way people go about nowadays saying things against one behind one's back that are absolutely and entirely true.