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“What a silly thing love is! It is not half as useful as logic, for it does not prove anything and it is always telling one things that are not going to happen, and making one believe things that are not true.”

Oscar Wilde

“Muffins should always be eaten quite calmly, as it is the only way to eat them!”

Oscar Wilde The Importance of Being Earnest

Source: The Importance of Being Earnest

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

Oscar Wilde An Ideal Husband

Source: An Ideal Husband

“Spontaneity is a meticulously prepared art”

Oscar Wilde

“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.”

Oscar Wilde book The Picture of Dorian Gray

Source: The Picture of Dorian Gray

“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.”

Oscar Wilde book The Picture of Dorian Gray

Source: The Picture of Dorian Gray

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

Oscar Wilde Lady Windermere's Fan

Source: Lady Windermere's Fan

“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.”

Oscar Wilde

Source: De Profundis and Other Writings

“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.”

Oscar Wilde book The Soul of Man under Socialism

The Soul of Man Under Socialism (1891)
Context: Art is Individualism, and Individualism is a disturbing and disintegrating force. Therein lies its immense value. For what it 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.”

Oscar Wilde book The Picture of Dorian Gray

Variant: You will always be fond of me. I represent to you all the sins you never had the courage to commit.
Source: The Picture of Dorian Gray

“Circumstances should never alter principles!”

Oscar Wilde An Ideal Husband

Source: An Ideal Husband

“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.”

Oscar Wilde The Importance of Being Earnest

The Philosophy of Dress, The New-York Tribune, 1885. For an analysis see Fashion a Form of Ugliness http://www.oscarwildeinamerica.org/quotations/fashion-a-form-of-ugliness.html <br class="br">Source: The Importance of Being Earnest

“The curves of your lips rewrite history.”

Oscar Wilde

“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.”

Oscar Wilde

The Critic as Artist (1891), Part II

“She lacks the indefinable charm of weakness.”

Oscar Wilde book The Picture of Dorian Gray

Variant: She is very clever, too clever for a woman. She lacks the indefinable charm of weakness.
Source: The Picture of Dorian Gray

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

Oscar Wilde book The Picture of Dorian Gray

Source: The Picture of Dorian Gray