Oscar Wilde Quotes

It is always the unreadable that occurs.

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The job of the critic is to report to us his moods.

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All art is at once surface and symbol. Those who go beneath the surface do so at their peril.

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The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it. Resist it, and your soul grows sick with longing for the things it has forbidden to itself, with desire for what its monstrous laws have made monstrous and unlawful.

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Men know life too early. Women know life too late. That is the difference between men and women.

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Words! Mere words! How terrible they were! How clear, and vivid, and cruel! One could not escape from them. And yet what a subtle magic there was in them! They seemed to be able to give a plastic form to formless things, and to have a music of their own as sweet as that of viol or of lute. Mere words! Was there anything so real as words?

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I suppose society is wonderfully delightful. To be in it is merely a bore. But to be out of it is simply a tragedy.

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We have really everything in common with America nowadays, except, of course, language.

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And if life be, as it surely is, a problem to me, I am no less a problem to life.

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One can live for years sometimes without living at all, and then all life comes crowding into one single hour.

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Ambition is the germ from which all growth of nobleness proceeds.

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Life, Lady Stutfield, is simply a mauvais quart d'heure made up of exquisite moments.

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If one could only teach the English how to talk, and the Irish how to listen, society here would be quite civilized.

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Talent borrows, genius steals!

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And all the woods are alive with the murmur and sound of Spring, And the rose-bud breaks into pink on the climbing briar, And the crocus-bed is a quivering moon of fire Girdled round with the belt of an amethyst ring.

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Religions die when they are proved to be true. Science is the record of dead religions.

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We in the House of Lords are never in touch with public opinion. That makes us a civilised body.

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The vilest deeds like poison weeds Bloom well in prison air; It is only what is good in man That wastes and withers there.

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Whenever one has anything unpleasant to say, one should always be quite candid.

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I regard the theatre as the greatest of all art forms, the most immediate way in which a human being can share with another the sense of what it is to be a human being.

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