What people call insincerity is simply a method by which we can multiply our personalities.
She...can talk brillantly upon any subject provided she knows nothing about it.
Oscar Wilde: "I wish I had said that." Whistler: "You will, Oscar; you will.
There were opium-dens, where one could buy oblivion, dens of horror where the memory of old sins could be destroyed by the madness of sins that were new.
. . . try as we may we cannot get behind things to the reality. And the terrible reason may be that there is no reality in things apart from their appearances.
There's this funny thing I've noticed about people. You never really get the story you expect. Ask them about what they have, and they'll tell you about what they want. Ask them to tell you about love...
No artist desires to prove anything. Even things that are can be proved. No artist has ethical sympathies. An ethical sympathy in an artist is an unpardonable mannerism of style. No artist is ever mor...
You dislike Basil because, without his art, his life is horribly plain. Unlike Dorian who has made an art out of his life. Basil produces art; Dorian consumes it and lets it overwhelm him.
For his mourners will be outcast menAnd outcasts always mourn...
She lives the poetry she cannot write
Yet the roses are not less lovely for all that
If, with the literate, I amImpelled to try an epigram,I never seek to take the credit;We all assume that Oscar said it.
Likewise, Oscar Wilde asked an English journalist to look over 'The Picture of Dorian Gray' before publication: Will you also look after my 'wills' and 'shalls' in proof. I am Celtic in my use of thes...
As for believing things, I can believe anything, provided that it is quite incredible.
Damn it all, MacMurrough, are you telling me you are an unspeakable of the Oscar Wilde sort?’‘If you mean am I Irish, the answer is yes.
Every single human being should be the fulfilment of a prophecy: for every human being should be the realisation of some ideal, either in the mind of God or in the mind of man.
Fashion is what one wears oneself. What is unfashionable is what other people wear.Just as vulgarity is simply the conduct of other people.And falsehoods the truths of other people.Other people are qu...
I am an unspeakable of the Oscar Wilde sort.
I envy you going to Oxford: it is the most flower-like time of one's life. One sees shadow of things in silver mirrors. Later on, one sees the Gorgon's head, and one suffers, because it does not retur...
I find him in the curves of certain lines, in the loveliness and subtleties of certain colours.
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