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Oscar Wilde
Each of the...
Each of the professions means a prejudice. The necessity for a career forces every one to take sides. We live in the...
Mere colour, unspoiled...
Mere colour, unspoiled by meaning, and unallied with definite form, can speak to the soul in a thousand different...
In this world...
In this world there are two tragedies. One is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it. The last is...
There are moments...
There are moments when art attains almost to the dignity of manual labor.
Source:...
It is well...
It is well for his peace that the saint goes to his martyrdom. He is spared the sight of the horror of his...
Life! Life! Don't...
Life! Life! Don't let us go to life for our fulfillment or our experience. It is a thing narrowed by circumstances,...
The man who...
The man who sees both sides of a question is a man who sees absolutely nothing at all.
I dislike modern...
I dislike modern memoirs. They are generally written by people who have either entirely lost their memories, or have...
Nothing looks so...
Nothing looks so like innocence as an indiscretion.
Source: Cecil Graham, in Lady...
The public is...
The public is wonderfully tolerant. It forgives everything except genius.
Source:...
Newspapers. . ....
Newspapers. . . give us the bald, sordid, disgusting facts of life. They chronicle, with degrading avidity, the sins...
Conscience and cowardice...
Conscience and cowardice are really the same things.
Source: In Webster's...
The mere existence...
The mere existence of conscience, that faculty of which people prate so much nowadays, and are so ignorantly proud, is...
Gossip is charming!...
Gossip is charming! History is merely gossip. But scandal is gossip made tedious by...
As long as...
As long as war is regarded as wicked, it will always have it's fascination. When it is looked upon as vulgar, it will...
Few parents nowadays...
Few parents nowadays pay any regard to what their children say to them. The old-fashioned respect for the young is...
Intellectual generalities are...
Intellectual generalities are always interesting, but generalities in morals mean absolutely...
Anybody can make...
Anybody can make history. Only a great man can write it.
Source: Gilbert, in The...
It requires one...
It requires one to assume such indecent postures.
Source: Explaining why he did not...
Bad artists always...
Bad artists always admire each other's work. They call it being large-minded and free from prejudice. But a truly...