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“I am afraid that woman appreciate cruelty, downright cruelty, more than anything else. They have wonderfully primitive instincts. We have emancipated them, but they remain slaves looking for their masters, all the same. They love being dominated.”

Oscar Wilde book The Picture of Dorian Gray

Source: The Picture of Dorian Gray

“LADY BRACKNELL

Algernon is an extremely, I may almost say an ostentatiously, eligible young man. He has nothing, but he looks everything. What more can one desire?”

Oscar Wilde The Importance of Being Earnest

Source: The Importance of Being Earnest

“Yes; poor Bunbury is a dreadful invalid.
Well, I must say, Algernon, that I think it is high time that Mr. Bunbury made up his mind whether he was going to live or to die. This shillyshallying with the question is absurd.”

Oscar Wilde The Importance of Being Earnest

Source: The Importance of Being Earnest

“God and other artists are always a little obscure…..”

“To give an accurate description of what has never occurred is not merely the proper occupation of the historian, but the inalienable privilege of any man of parts and culture.”

“It is in the brain, and the brain only, that the great sins of the world take place”

“She wore far too much rouge last night and not quite enough clothes. That is always a sign of despair in a woman.”

“Millionaire models are rare enough; but, by Jove, model millionaires are rarer still!”

“I never read a book I must review; it prejudices you so.”

“A truth ceases to be true when more than one person believes in it.”

Source: Complete Works of Oscar Wilde

“Youth is the only thing worth having.”

“Behind the perfection of a man's style, must lie the passion of a man's soul.”

Source: Reviews

“In old days men had the rack. Now they have the press.”

Oscar Wilde An Ideal Husband

The Soul of Man Under Socialism (1891)
Source: An Ideal Husband

“Basil Hallward is what I think I am: Lord Henry what the world thinks me: Dorian what I would like to be—in other ages, perhaps.”

“The burden of this world is too great for one man to bear, and the world’s sorrow too heavy for one heart to suffer.”

Oscar Wilde book A House of Pomegranates

Source: A House of Pomegranates

“because to influence a person is to give one's own soul.”

Oscar Wilde book The Picture of Dorian Gray

Source: The Picture of Dorian Gray

“The world is made by the singer for the dreamer.”

Source: The Critic as Artist

“The only thing I cannot resist is temptation.”

“Ridicule is the tribute paid to the genius by the mediocrities”

“I am not at all cynical, I have merely got experience, which, however, is very much the same thing.”

Oscar Wilde book Lord Arthur Savile's Crime and Other Stories

Source: Lord Arthur Savile's Crime and Other Stories