If one listens one may be convinced; and a man who allows himself to be convinced by an argument is a thoroughly unreasonable person
Oscar WildeTags: an-ideal-husband
Most people become bankrupt through having invested too heavily in the prose of life. To have ruined one's self over poetry is an honour.
Oscar WildeYou cut life to pieces with your epigrams.
Oscar WildeI think it's very healthy to spend time alone. You need to know how to be alone and not be defined by another person.
Oscar WildeMy dear fellow, I am prepared to prove anything.
Oscar WildeTags: humor intellectual
God knows; I won't be an Oxford don anyhow. I'll be a poet, a writer, a dramatist. Somehow or other I'll be famous, and if not famous, I'll be notorious. Or perhaps I'll lead the life of pleasure for a time and then—who knows?—rest and do nothing. What does Plato say is the highest end that man can attain here below? To sit down and contemplate the good. Perhaps that will be the end of me too.
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If it took Labouchere three columns to prove that I was forgotten, then there is no difference between fame and obscurity.
Oscar WildeTags: walter-helwich
Lo! with a little rod
I did but touch the honey of romance —
And must I lose a soul's inheritance?
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Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months.
Oscar WildeTags: fashion
The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame.
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