Oscar Wilde: Trending quotes (page 26)

“What fire does not destroy, it hardens”

“[E]verybody who is incapable of learning has taken to teaching.”

“Young people, nowadays, imagine that money is everything.

Yes, murmured Lord Henry, settling his button-hole in his coat; and when they grow older they know it.”

“The great events of the world take place in the brain…”

“Never met such a Gorgon… I don't really know what a Gorgon is like, but I am quite sure that Lady Bracknell is one. In any case, she is a monster, without being a myth, which is rather unfair.”

“I have always been of opinion that a man who desires to get married should know either everything or nothing.”

“I never approve, or disapprove, of anything now. It is an absurd attitude to take towards life.”

“I am one of those who are made for exceptions, not for laws.”

“The basis of action is lack of imagination. It is the last resource of those who know not how to dream.”

“We can have in life but one great experience at best, and the secret of life is to reproduce that experience as often as possible.”

“A simile committing suicide is always a depressing spectacle.”

“Mere color, unspoiled by meaning, and unallied with definite form, can speak to the soul in a thousand different ways.”

“Conscience and cowardice are really the same things, Basil. Conscience is the trade-name of the firm. That is all.”

“You seem to forget that I am married, and the one charm of marriage is that it makes a life of deception absolutely necessary for both parties.”

“I don't like novels that end happily. They depress me so much”

“The worst of having a romance of any kind is that it leaves one so unromantic.”

“If one doesn't talk about a thing, it has never happened. It is simply expression that gives reality to things.”

“But beauty, real beauty, ends where an intellectual expression begins. Intellect is in itself a mode of exaggeration, and destroys the harmony of any face.”

“He wanted to be where no one would know who he was. He wanted to escape from himself.”