Oscar Wilde: Thing (page 4)

“The only horrible thing in the world is ennui.”

“Dear little Swallow,’ said the Prince, ‘you tell me of marvelous things, but more marvelous than anything is the suffering of men and of women. There is no Mystery so great as Misery.”

“I love scrapes. They are the only things that are never serious."
"Oh, that's nonsense, Algy. You never talk anything but nonsense."
"Nobody ever does.”

“An artist should create beautiful things, but should put nothing of his own life into them.”

“As for omens, there is no such thing as an omen. Destiny does not send us heralds. She is too wise or too cruel for that.”

“The final revelation is that Lying, the telling of beautiful untrue things, is the proper aim of Art.”

“I am sick to death of cleverness. Everybody is clever nowadays. You can’t go anywhere without meeting clever people. The thing has become an absolute public nuisance. I wish to goodness we had a few fools left.”

“Is insincerity such a terrible thing? I think not. It is merely a method by which we can multiply our personalities.”

“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.”

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

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

“It is always a silly thing to give advice, but to give good advice is absolutely fatal.”

“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.”

“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.”

“Even things that are true can be proved.”

“We can forgive a man for making a useful thing as long as he does not admire it. The only excuse for making a useless thing is that one admires it intensely.

All art is quite useless.”

“There is nothing in the world like the devotion of a married woman. It is a thing no married man knows anything about.”

“In your soul are infinitely precious things that cannot be taken from you”

“Nowadays we are all of us so hard up that the only pleasant things to pay are compliments. They're the only things we can pay.”