Oscar Wilde: Trending quotes (page 21)

“I want to be good. I can't bear the idea of my soul being hideous.”

“And alien tears will fill for him
Pity's long-broken urn,
For his mourners will be outcast men,
And outcasts always mourn.”

“As for believing things, I can believe anything, provided that it is quite incredible.”

“The tragedy of the poor is that they can afford nothing but self denial.”

“Always borrow money from a pessimist. He won't expect it back.”

“Lord Illingworth: The Book of Life begins with a man and a woman in a garden.
Mrs. Allonby: It ends with Revelations.”

“You told me you had destroyed it."

"I was wrong. It has destroyed me.”

“It's the spectator, and not life, that art really mirrors.”

“The only difference between a caprice and a lifelong passion is that the caprice lasts a little longer.”

“What men call the shadow of the body is not the shadow of the body, but is the body of the soul.”

“To disagree with three-fourths of the British public is one of the first requisites of sanity.”

“I've now realized for the first time in my life the vital Importance of Being Earnest.”

“When bankers get together for dinner, they discuss Art. When artists get together for dinner, they discuss Money”

“It is a very sad thing that nowadays there is so little useless information.”

“One must have a heart of stone to read the death of little Nell without laughing.”

“It was not intended as a compliment. It was a confession. Now that I have made it, something seems to have gone out of me. Perhaps one should never put one's worship into words.”

“Love is easily killed.”

“I didn't say I liked it Harry. I said it fascinated me. There is a great difference.”

“Plain women are always jealous of their husbands. Beautiful women never are. They are always so occupied with being jealous of other women's husbands.”