Oscar Wilde: Trending quotes (page 15)

“The world seemed to me fine because you were in it, and goodness more real because you lived.”

“Spontaneity is a meticulously prepared art”

“It has been said that the great events of the world take place in the brain. It is in the brain, and the brain only, that the great sins of the world take place also.”

“Veil after veil of thin dusky gauze is lifted, and by degrees the forms and colours of things are restored to them, and we watch the dawn remaking the world in its antique pattern.”

“Good heavens! how marriage ruins a man! It's as demoralizing as cigarettes, and far more expensive.”

“I am a born antinomian. I am one of those who are made for exceptions, not for laws. But while I see that there is nothing wrong in what one does, I see that there is something wrong in what one becomes.”

“What art seeks to disturb is monotony of type, slavery of custom, tyranny of habit, and the reduction of man to the level of a machine.”

“I represent to you all the sins you have never had the courage to commit.”

“Circumstances should never alter principles!”

“And, after all, what is a fashion? From the artistic point of view, it is usually a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months.”

“The curves of your lips rewrite history.”

“One is tempted to define man as a rational animal who always loses his temper when he is called upon to act in accordance with the dictates of reason.”

“I have spent most of the day putting in a comma and the rest of the day taking it out.”

“She lacks the indefinable charm of weakness.”

“I will not bare my soul to their shallow prying eyes. My heart shall never be put under their microscope.”

“When critics disagree the artist is in accord with himself.”

“I always like to know everything about my new friends, and nothing about my old ones.”

“If people are dishonest once, they will be dishonest a second time. And honest people should keep away from them. (Lady Chiltern)”

“A burnt child loves the fire.”