Oscar Wilde Quotes

“Tell the cook of this restaurant with my compliments that these are the very worst sandwiches in the whole world, and that, when I ask for a watercress sandwich, I do not mean a loaf with a field in the middle of it.”

“And certainly once a man begins to neglect his domestic duties he becomes painfully effeminate, does he not? And I don't like that. It makes men so very attractive.”

“I see the moon like a clipped piece of silver. Like gilded bees the stars cluster round her.”

“What seems to us as bitter trials are often blessings in disguise”

“And suddenly the moon withdraws her sickle from the lightening skies, and to her sombre cavern flies, wrapped in a veil of yellow gauze.”

“The worst of it is that I am perpetually being punished for nothing; this governor loves to punish, and he punishes by taking my books away from me. It's perfectly awful to let the mind grind itself away between the upper and nether millstones of regret and remorse without respite; with books my life would be livable -- any life.”

“Misfortunes one can endure--they come from outside, they are accidents. But to suffer for one's own faults--ah!--there is the sting of life.”

“Who is that man over there? I don't know him. What is he doing? Is he a conspirator? Have you searched him? Give him till tomorrow to confess, then hang him! -- hang him!”

“The ancient historians gave us delightful fiction in the form of fact; the modern novelist presents us with dull facts under the guise of fiction.”

“Grass is hard and lumpy and damp, and full of dreadful black insects.”

“Scandal is gossip made tedious by morality.”

“I don’t regret for a single moment having lived for pleasure. I did it to the full, as one should do everything that one does. There was no pleasure I did not experience.”

“Come, dear, [Gwendolen rises] we have already missed five, if not six, trains. To miss any more might expose us to comment on the platform.”

“Many people become bankrupt through having invested too heavily in the prose of life. To have ruined one's self over poetry is an honor.”

“The English country-gentleman galloping after a fox — the unspeakable in full pursuit of the uneatable.”

“Simple pleasures are the last healthy refuge in a complex world.”

“Schools should be the most beautiful place in every town and village-so beautiful that the punishment for undutiful children should be barred from going to school the following day.”

“They get up early, because they have so much to do, and go to bed early, because they have so little to think about.”

“Romantic art deals with the exception and with the individual. Good people, belonging as they do to the normal, and so, commonplace type, are artistically uninteresting.”

“The key to making up Oscar Wilde quotes is to add '~ Oscar Wilde' at the end.”

“I never saw a man who looked With such a wistful eye Upon that little tent of blue Which prisoners call the sky.”

“Morality is simply the attitude we adopt towards people whom we personally dislike.”

“Ah! The strength of women comes from the fact that psychology cannot explain us. Men can be analyzed, women...merely adored.”

“Immanuel isn't a pun; he Kant be!”

“One should never make one's entrance with a scandal. One should reserve that to give an interest to one's old age.”