Oscar Wilde: Trending quotes (page 12)

“It was the passions about whose origin we deceived ourselves that tyrannized most strongly over us.”

“The artist is the creator of beautiful things. To reveal art and conceal the artist is art's aim.”

“The terror of society, which is the basis of morals, the terror of God, which is the secret of religion-these are the two things that govern us.”

“I think life too complex a thing to be settled by these hard and fast rules.”

“It was you I thought of all the time, I gave to them the love you did not need: lavished on them a love that was not theirs.”

“Music is the art which is most nigh to tears and memories.”

“Jack: Actually, I was found.
Lady Bracknell: Found?
Jack: Uh, yes, I was in… a handbag.
Lady Bracknell: A handbag?
Jack: Yes, it was…
[makes gestures]
Jack: an ordinary handbag.”

“I must decline your invitation owing to a subsequent engagement.”

“I want to make Romeo jealous! I want the dead lovers of the world to hear our laughter, and grow sad. I want a breath of our passion to stir their dust into consciousness, to wake their ashes into pain.”

“Thirty-five is a very attractive age. London society is full of women of the very highest birth who have, of their own free choice, remained thirty-five for years.”

“I hope to-morrow will be a fine day, Lane.
It never is, sir.
Lane, you're a perfect pessimist.
I do my best to give satisfaction, sir.”

“Friendship… is not something you learn in school, but if you haven't learned the meaning of friendship you really haven't learned anything.”

“She had a passion for secrecy, but she herself was merely a Sphinx without a secret.”

“You are Beautiful when you are happy”

“To look wise is quite as good as understanding a thing, and very much easier.”

“I was wrong. God's law is only Love.”

“If this is the way Queen Victoria treats her prisoners, she doesn't deserve to have any.”

“Duty is what one expects from others.”

“The supreme vice is shallowness.”