Oscar Wilde Quotes (991 Quotes)
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- I never change, except in my affections.
(Oscar Wilde, "The Importance of Being Earnest")
- Well, I can't eat muffins in an agitated manner. The butter would probably get on my cuffs.
(Oscar Wilde, "The Importance of Being Earnest")
- Being natural is simply a pose, and the most irritating pose I know.
(Oscar Wilde, "The Picture of Dorian Gray")
- He wanted to be where no one would know who he was. He wanted to escape from himself.
(Oscar Wilde, "The Picture of Dorian Gray")
- I had buried my romance in a bed of asphodel.
(Oscar Wilde, "The Picture of Dorian Gray")
- If one doesn't talk about a thing, it has never happened. It is simply expression that gives reality to things.
(Oscar Wilde, "The Picture of Dorian Gray")
- Laughter is not at all a bad beginnig for a friendship, and it is by far the best ending for one.
(Oscar Wilde, "The Picture of Dorian Gray")
- She is all the great heroines of the world in one.
(Oscar Wilde, "The Picture of Dorian Gray")
- The past could always be annihilated. Regret, denial, or forgetfulness could do that. But the future was inevitable.
(Oscar Wilde, "The Picture of Dorian Gray")
- There was something in his face that made one trust him at once. All the candour of youth was there, as well as youth's passionate purity. One felt that he had kept himself unspotted from the world.
(Oscar Wilde, "The Picture of Dorian Gray")
- What absurd fellows you are, both of you! I wonder who it was defined man as a rational animal. It was the most premature definition ever given.
(Oscar Wilde, "The Picture of Dorian Gray")
- You have killed my love. You used to stir my imagination. Now you don't even stir my curiosity. You simply produce no effect. I loved you because you were marvelous, because you had genius and intellect, because you realized the dreams of great poets and gave shape and substance to the shadows of art. You have thrown it all away. You are shallow and stupid
(Oscar Wilde, "The Picture of Dorian Gray")
- I really don't see anything romantic in proposing. It is very romantic to be in love. But there is nothing romantic about a definite proposal. Why, one may be accepted. One usually is, I believe. Then the excitement is all over. The very essence of romance is uncertainty. If ever I get married, I'll certainly try to forget the fact.
(Oscar Wilde, "The Importance of Being Earnest")
- When one is in town one amuses oneself. When one is in the country one amuses other people. It is excessively boring.
(Oscar Wilde, "The Importance of Being Earnest")
- Believe me, no civilized man ever regrets a pleasure, and no uncivilized man ever knows what a pleasure is.
(Oscar Wilde, "The Picture of Dorian Gray")
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