Quotes About Oscar Wilde

Not Forgive us for our sins but Smite us for our iniquities should be the prayer of man to a most just God.

The way of paradoxes is the way of truth. To test Reality we must see it on the tight-rope. When the Verities become acrobats we can judge them.

And the wild regrets and the bloody seats None knew so well as I For he who lives more lives than one More deaths than one, must die.

Do you really keep a diary? I'd give anything to look at it. May I? Oh, no. You see, it is simply a very young girl's record of her own thoughts and impressions, and consequently meant for publication. When it appears in volume form I hope you will order a copy.

A dream of form in days of thought'--who is it who says that? I forget; but it is what Dorian Gray has been to me.

Women are never disarmed by compliments. Men always are. That is the difference between the sexes.

Like all people who try to exhaust a subject, he exhausted his listeners.

We have quite the same ideas. No; I think our ideas are quite different. But he has been most pleasant.

I don't want to see him alone. He says things that annoy me. He gives me good advice. Lord Henry smiled. People are very fond of giving away what they need most themselves. It is what I call the depth of generosity.

Well, I can't eat muffins in an agitated manner. The butter would probably get on my cuffs. One should always eat muffins quite calmly. It is the only way to eat them.

I don't think I am heartless. Do you?' 'You have done too many foolish things during the last fortnight to be entitled to give yourself that name, Dorian,' answered Lord Henry with his sweet melancholy smile.

I never approve, or disapprove, of anything now. It is an absurd attitude to take towards life. We are not sent into the world to air our moral prejudices.

Well, I know, of course, how important it is not to keep a business engagement, if one wants to retain any sense of the beauty of life.

Death is the only thing that ever terrifies me. I hate it.

Never trust a woman who wears mauve.

I am sorry my life is so marred and maimed by extravagance. But I cannot live otherwise. I, at any rate, pay the penalty of suffering.

As for a spoiled life, no life is spoiled but one whose growth is arrested. If you want to mar a nature, you have merely to reform it.

He was trying to gather up the scarlet threads of life and weave them into a pattern; to find his way through the sanguine labyrinth of passion through which he was wandering.

I can sympathise with everything, except suffering, cried Lord Harry, Shrugging his shoulders. I cannot sympathise with that. It is too ugly, too horrible, too distressing. There is something terribly morbid in the modern sympathy with pain.

It is simply expression, as Henry says, that gives reality to things.

That's an awful thing,a womans memory

To tell people what to read is, as a rule, either useless or harmful; for the appreciation of literature is a question of temperament not of teaching; to Parnassus there is no primer and nothing that one can learn is ever worth learning.

To cure the soul by means of the senses, and the senses by means of the soul.

memory, like a horrible malady, was eating his soul away