Life is not complex. We are complex. Life is simple, and the simple thing is the right thing.
I suppose society is wonderfully delightful. To be in it is merely a bore. But to be out of it is simply a tragedy.
There is only one class in the community that thinks more about money than the rich, and that is the poor. The poor can think of nothing else.
The salesman knows nothing of what he is selling save that he is charging a great deal too much for it.
Arguments are extremely vulgar, for everyone in good society holds exactly the same opinion.
You are a wonderful creation. You know more than you think you know, just as you know less than you want to know.
When we are happy, we are always good, but when we are good, we are not always happy.
When good Americans die, they go to ParisWhere do bad Americans go?They stay in America
When I am in trouble, eating is the only thing that consoles me. Indeed, as any one who knows me intimately will tell you, I refuse everything except food and drink. At the present moment I am eating...
There were moments when he looked on evil simply as a mode through which he could realize his conception of the beautiful.
The secret of remaining young is never to have an emotion that is unbecoming.
The only artists I have ever known who are personally delightful are bad artists. Good artists exist simply in what they make, and consequently are perfectly uninteresting in what they are. A great po...
The bright dawn flooded the room, and swept the fantastic shadows into dusky corners, where they lay shuddering.
The artist is the creator of beautiful things. To reveal art and conceal the artist is art's aim. The critic is he who can translate into another manner or a new material his impression of beautiful t...
Oscar Wilde was suing the Marquis of Queensbury in 1895 for libel accusing Wilde of homosexuality
Nothing should be out of the reach of hope. Life is a hope.
Love is a sacrament that should be taken kneeling, and Domine non sum dignus should be on the lips and in the hearts of those who receive it.
Laughter is not at all a bad beginning for a friendship, and it is by far the best ending for one.
LADY BRACKNELLThirty-five is a very attractive age. London society is full of women of the very highest birth who have, of their own free choice, remained thirty-five for years. Lady Dumbleton is an i...
JACKYour duty as a gentleman calls you back. ALGERNONMy duty as a gentleman has never interfered with my pleasures in the smallest degree.