Oscar Wilde Quotes

There is nothing so difficult to marry as a large nose.

I can resist everything except temptation.

In judging of a beautiful statue, the aesthetic faculty is absolutely and completely gratified by the splendid curves of those marble lips that are dumb to our complaint, the noble modelling of those limbs that are powerless to help us.

Romance should never begin with sentiment. It should begin with science and end with a settlement.

In all matters of opinion, our adversaries are insane.

In America the President reigns for four years, and Journalism governs forever and ever.

Technique is really personality. That is the reason why the artist cannot teach it, why the pupil cannot learn it, and why the aesthetic critic can understand it.

I want my food dead. Not sick, not dying, dead.

Beauty has as many meanings as man has moods. Beauty is the symbol of symbols. Beauty reveals everything, because it expresses nothing. When it shows us itself, it shows us the whole fiery-coloured world.

In modern life nothing produces such an effect as a good platitude. It makes the whole world kin.

The salesman knows nothing of what he is selling save that he is charging a great deal too much for it.

Society exists only as a mental concept; in the real world there are only individuals.

Romantic art deals with the exception and with the individual. Good people, belonging as they do to the normal, and so, commonplace type, are artistically uninteresting.

This suspense is terrible. I hope it will last.

Placerea este testul naturii, semnul ei aprobator.

Arguments are extremely vulgar, for everyone in good society holds exactly the same opinion.

With age comes wisdom, but sometimes age comes alone.