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Oscar Wilde
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...
Pray don't talk...
Pray don't talk to me about the weather, Mr. Worthing. Whenever people talk to me about the weather, I always feel...
Keep love in...
Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are...
No, Ernest, don't...
No, Ernest, don't talk about action. It is the last resource of those who know not how to...
To be good,...
To be good, according to the vulgar standard of goodness, is obviously quite easy. It merely requires a certain amount...
Public Opinion... an...
Public Opinion... an attempt to organize the ignorance of the community, and to elevate it to the dignity of physical...
The old-fashioned respect...
The old-fashioned respect for the young is fast dying out.
Source: Gwendolen, in...
Life is too...
Life is too important to be taken seriously.
Source: In Webster's Electronic...
To give an...
To give an accurate description of what has never occurred is not merely the proper occupation of the historian, but...
I seem to...
I seem to have heard that observation before. . . . It has all the vitality of error and all the tediousness of an old...
Temperament is the...
Temperament is the primary requisite for the critic -- a temperament exquisitely susceptible to beauty, and to the...
The exquisite art...
The exquisite art of idleness, one of the most important things that any University can...
Men of thought...
Men of thought should have nothing to do with action.
Source: In Webster's...
It is a...
It is a dangerous thing to reform anyone.
Source: Gilbert, in The Critic as Artist,...
The one duty...
The one duty we owe to history is to rewrite it.
Source: Gilbert, in The Critic as...
Formerly we used...
Formerly we used to canonise our heroes. The modern method is to vulgarise them. Cheap editions of great books may...