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Oscar Wilde
Conversation should touch...
Conversation should touch everything, but should concentrate itself on nothing.
If they have...
If they have not opened the eyes of the blind, they have at least given great encouragement to the short-sighted, and...
A man who...
A man who moralises is usually a hypocrite, and a woman who moralises is invariably plain.
Twenty years of...
Twenty years of romance makes a woman look like a ruin; but twenty years of marriage make her something like a public...
I should be...
I should be like a lion in a cave of savage Daniels.
Source: Explaining why he...
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...