Quotes about Oscar Wilde
I find I have, and a heart doesn't suit me, Windermere. Somehow it doesn't go with modern dress. It makes one look old.
— Oscar Wilde
memory, like a horrible malady, was eating his soul away
— Oscar Wilde
The Americans are an extremely interesting people. They are absolutely reasonable. I think that is their distinguishing characteristic...I assure you there is no nonsense about the Americans.
— Oscar Wilde
When critics disagree, the artist is in accord with himself. We can forgive a man for making a useful thing as long as he does not admire it. The only excuse for making a useless thing is that one admires it intensely. All art is quite useless.
— 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.
— Oscar Wilde
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.
— Oscar Wilde
All sins, except a sin against itself, Love should forgive. All lives, save loveless lives, true Love should pardon.
— Oscar Wilde
It is very vulgar to talk like a dentist when one isn't a dentist. It produces a false impression.
— Oscar Wilde
Death and vulgarity are the only two facts in the nineteenth century that one cannot explain away.
— Oscar Wilde
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.
— Oscar Wilde
What are American dry-goods? asked the duchess, raising her large hands in wonder and accentuating the verb. American novels, answered Lord Henry.
— Oscar Wilde
It has all the terrible beauty of a Greek tragedy, a tragedy in which I took a great part, but by which I have not been wounded.
— Oscar Wilde