Every woman is a rebel, and usually in wild revolt against herself.
Oscar WildeI am but too conscious of the fact that we are born in an age when only the dull are treated seriously, and I live in terror of not being misunderstood. Don't degrade me into the position of giving you useful information. Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.
Oscar WildeTags: humor
We can forgive a man for making a useful thing as long as he does not admire it
Oscar WildeTags: oscar-wild
Well, I must say, Algernon, that I think it is high time that Mr. Bunbury made up his mind whether he was going to live or to die. This shilly-shallying with the question is absurd. Nor do I in any way approve of the modern sympathy with invalids. I consider it morbid. Illness of any kind is hardly a thing to be encouraged in others. Health is the primary duty of life.
Oscar WildeConscience and cowardice are really the same things, Basil. Conscience is the trade-name of the firm. That is all.
Oscar WildeTags: conscience cowardice
You like every one; that is to say, you are indifferent to every one.
Oscar WildeTags: relationships
I think you are wrong, Basil, but I won't argue with you. It is only the intellectually lost who ever argue.
Oscar WildeTags: rhetoric
It is a sad thing to think of, but there is no doubt that genius lasts longer than beauty. That accounts for the fact that we all take such pains to over-educate ourselves. In the wild struggle for existence, we want to have something that endures, and so we fill our minds with rubbish and facts, in the silly hope of keeping our place. The thoroughly well-informed man--that is the modern ideal. And the mind of the thoroughly well-informed man is a dreadful thing. It is like a bric-a-brac shop, all monsters and dust, with everything priced above its proper value.
Oscar WildeTags: intellectualism
Man is many things, but he is not rational.
Oscar WildeTags: psychology
You can hardly imagine that I and Lord Bracknell would dream of allowing our only daughter - a girl brought up with the utmost care - to marry into a cloak-room, and form an alliance with a parcel?
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