Oscar Wilde: Trending quotes (page 17)

“The bright dawn flooded the room, and swept the fantastic shadows into dusky corners, where they lay shuddering.”

“Jack: “Gwendolen, wait here for me.”
Gwendolen: “If you are not too long, I will wait here for you all my life.”

“You can hardly imagine that I and Lord Bracknell would dream of allowing our only daughter - a girl brought up with the utmost care - to marry into a cloak-room, and form an alliance with a parcel?”

“Romantic literature is in effect imaginative lying.”

“But what world says that [I'm wicked]? It can only be the next world. This world and I are on excellent terms.”

“To speak frankly, I am not in favour of long engagements. They give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before marriage, which I think is never advisable.”

“Pleasure is the only thing one should live for, nothing ages like happiness.”

“The critic has to educate the public; the artist has to educate the critic.”

“One world was not enough for two like me and you.”

“Time is a waste of money.”

“Men know life too early. Women know life too late. That is the difference between men and women.”

“Good taste is the excuse I've always given for leading such a bad life”

“It is a sad truth, but we have lost the faculty of giving lovely names to things.”

“If we're always guided by other people's thoughts, what's the point in having our own?”

“Lady Bracknell. Good afternoon, dear Algernon, I hope you are behaving very well.

Algernon. I’m feeling very well, Aunt Augusta.

Lady Bracknell. That’s not quite the same thing. In fact the two things rarely go together.”

“we always misunderstood ourselves, and rarely understood others”

“How long could you love a woman who didn't love you, Cecil?
A woman who didn't love me? Oh, all my life!”

“I asked the question for the best reason possible, for the only reason, indeed, that excuses anyone for asking any question - simple curiosity.”

“Even before I met you I was far from indifferent to you.”