Oscar Wilde Quotes (991 Quotes)
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- Hesitation of any kind is a sign of mental decay in the young, of physical weakness in the old.
(Oscar Wilde, "The Importance of Being Earnest")
- My dear fellow, the truth isn't quite the sort of thing one tells to a nice, sweet, refined girl. What extraordinary ideas you have about the way to behave to a woman!
(Oscar Wilde, "The Importance of Being Earnest")
- Any man can be happy with any woman, so long as he doesn't love her.
(Oscar Wilde, "The Picture of Dorian Gray")
- Each of us has heaven and hell in him, Basil, cried Dorian with a wild gesture of despair.
(Oscar Wilde, "The Picture of Dorian Gray")
- I am tired of myself to-night. I should like to be somebody else.
(Oscar Wilde, "The Picture of Dorian Gray")
- I remembered what you had said to me on that wonderful evening we first dined together, about the search for beauty being the real secret of life…
(Oscar Wilde, "The Picture of Dorian Gray")
- It often seems to me that art conceals the artist far more completely than it ever reveals him.
(Oscar Wilde, "The Picture of Dorian Gray")
- Mourn for Ophelia, if you like. Put ashes on your head because Cordelia was strangled. Cry out against Heaven because the daughter of Brabantio died. But don't waste your tears over Sibyl Vane. She was less real than they are.
(Oscar Wilde, "The Picture of Dorian Gray")
- The bright dawn flooded the room, and swept the fantastic shadows into dusky corners, where they lay shuddering.
(Oscar Wilde, "The Picture of Dorian Gray")
- The wind shook some blossoms from the trees, and the heavy lilac blooms, with their clustering stars, moved to and fro in the languid air. A grasshopper began to chirp by the wall, and like a blue thread a long, thin dragonfly floated past on its brown gauze wings. Lord Henry felt as if he could hear Basil Hallward's heart beating, and wondered what was coming.
(Oscar Wilde, "The Picture of Dorian Gray")
- To him, man was a being with myriad lives and myriad sensations, a complex multiform creature that bore within itself strange legacies of thought and passion, and whose very flesh was tainted with the monstrous maladies of the dead.
(Oscar Wilde, "The Picture of Dorian Gray")
- Women are a decorative sex. They never have anything to say, but they say it charmingly.
(Oscar Wilde, "The Picture of Dorian Gray")
- I could deny it if I liked. I could deny anything if I liked.
(Oscar Wilde, "The Importance of Being Earnest")
- Never met such a Gorgon . . . I don't really know what a Gorgon is like, but I am quite sure that Lady Bracknell is one. In any case, she is a monster, without being a myth, which is rather unfair.
(Oscar Wilde, "The Importance of Being Earnest")
- As for believing things, I can believe anything, provided that it is quite incredible.
(Oscar Wilde, "The Picture of Dorian Gray")
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