353 quotes
Starvation, and not sin, is the parent of modern crime.
Personally, I have a great admiration for stupidity.
Dullness is the coming of age of seriousness.
Phrases and Philosophies for the Use of the Young (1894)
All bad poetry springs from genuine feeling.
The Critic as Artist (1891)
Psychology is in its infancy, as a science. I hope in the interests of Art, it will always remain so.
Oscar Wilde (1897)
Women have a wonderful instinct about things. They can discover everything except the obvious.
An Ideal Husband (1895)
In this world there are only two tragedies. One is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it.
Lady Windermere's Fan (1892)
All sins, except a sin against itself, Love should forgive. All lives, save loveless lives, true Love should pardon.
An Ideal Husband (1895)
Fashion is what one wears oneself. What is unfashionable is what other people wear.
An Ideal Husband (1895)
Even you are not rich enough, Sir Robert, to buy back your past. No man is.
An Ideal Husband (1895)
The good ended happily, and the bad unhappily. That is what Fiction means.
The Importance of Being Earnest (1895)
The mystery of love is greater than the mystery of death.
This suspense is terrible. I hope it will last.
The Importance of Being Earnest (1895)
The home seems to me to be the proper sphere for the man. And certainly once a man begins to neglect his domestic duties he becomes painfully effeminate, does he not?
The Importance of Being Earnest (1895)
But she—she heard the violin,
And left my side, and entered in:
Love passed into the house of lust.
The Harlot’s House (1882)
I've now realized for the first time in my life the vital Importance of Being Earnest.
The Importance of Being Earnest (1895)
I have invented an invaluable permanent invalid called Bunbury, in order that I may be able to go down into the country whenever I choose.
The Importance of Being Earnest (1895)
Relations are simply a tedious pack of people, who haven't got the remotest knowledge of how to live, nor the smallest instinct about when to die.
The Importance of Being Earnest (1895)
Sooner or later we have all to pay for what we do.
An Ideal Husband (1895)
Ambition is the last refuge of the failure.
Phrases and Philosophies for the Use of the Young (1894)