Quotes from Oscar Wilde

I hope to-morrow will be a fine day, Lane. Lane.  It never is, sir. Algernon.  Lane, you're a perfect pessimist. Lane.  I do my best to give satisfaction, sir.

People nowadays are so absolutely superficial that they don't understand the philosophy of the superficial.

Cuando una mujer vuelve a casarse es porque detestaba a su primer marido. Cuando un hombre vuelve a casarse es porque adoraba a su primera mujer. Las mujeres prueban suerte. Los hombres arriesgan la suya. -Narborough

High above the city, on a tall column, stood the statue of the Happy Prince.  He was gilded all over with thin leaves of fine gold, for eyes he had two bright sapphires, and a large red ruby glowed on his sword-hilt.

Art persists, it timelessly continues.

Our husbands would really forget our existence if we didn't nag at them from time to time, just to remind them that we have a perfect legal right to do so.

for I see in Christ not merely the essentials of the supreme romantic type, but all the accidents, the wilfulnesses even, of the romantic temperament also. He was the first person who ever said to people that they should live 'flower-like lives.' He fixed the phrase.

Ah! that is the great thing in life, to live the truth.

From the point of view of form, the type of all the arts is the art of the musician. From the point of view of feeling, the actor's craft is the type.

She said that she would dance with me if I brought her red roses, cried the young Student; but in all my garden there is no red rose.

The supreme vice is shallowness. Whatever is realised is right.

Experience is the name everyone gives to their mistakes.

Lord Henry went out to the garden and found Dorian Gray burying his face in the great cool lilac-blossoms, feverishly drinking in their perfume as if it had been wine.

Llevamos cadenas, aunque nadie las vea, y somos esclavos, aunque los hombres nos llamen libres

Puede recordar usted algún gran error que haya cometido en su juventud, duquesa? -preguntó mirándola- Me temo que de una gran cantidad de ellos -exclamó ella. Entonces cométalos otra vez -dijo él gravemente-. Volver a la juventud es solamente repetir sus locuras.

When a man has once loved a woman he will do anything for her except continue to love her.

I did not know it was such pain to die; I thought that life had taken all the agonies to itself.

He read of the Obelisk in the Place de la Concorde that weeps tears of granite in its lonely sunless exile and longs to be back by the hot, lotus-covered Nile.

MRS ARBUTHNOT For me the world is shriveled to a palm's breath, and where I walk there are thorns. HESTER It shall not be so. We shall somewhere find green valleys and fresh waters, and if we weep, well, we shall weep together.

The more abstract, the more ideal an art is, the more it reveals to us the temper of its age. If we wish to understand a nation by means of its art, let us look at its architecture or its music.

I don't want to see him alone. He says things that annoy me. He gives me good advice.

Why, my dear Basil, he is a Narcissus, and you—well, of course you have an intellectual expression, and all that. But beauty, real beauty, ends where an intellectual expression begins. Intellect is in itself an exaggeration, and destroys the harmony of any face. The moment one sits down to think, one becomes all nose, or all forehead, or something horrid.

Those who try to lead the people can only do so by following the mob

Marriage is hardly a thing that one can do now and then, Harry. Except in America, rejoined Lord Henry, languidly.