Quote

America is one long expectoration.

Oscar Wilde

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Oscar Wilde
Age: 46 †
Born: 1854
Born: October 16
Died: 1900
Died: November 30
Author
Essayist
Journalist
Novelist
Opinion Journalist
Playwright
Poet
Prosaist
Short Story Writer
Writer
Dublin city
Oscar O'Flahertie Wills Wilde
Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde
Insulting
Sarcastic
America
Long

More quotes by Oscar Wilde

Image
How does one cure the soul? Through the senses
Oscar Wilde
Image
Ordinary people waited till life disclosed to them its secrets, but to the few, to the elect, the mysteries of life were revealed before the veil was drawn away. Sometimes this was the effect of art, and chiefly of the art of literature, which dealt immediately with the passions and the intellect.
Oscar Wilde
Image
Beauty is a form of Genius--is higher, indeed, than Genius, as it needs no explanation. It is one of the great facts of the world, like sunlight, or springtime, or the reflection in the dark waters of that silver shell we call the moon. It cannot be questioned. It has divine right of sovereignty. It makes princes of those who have it.
Oscar Wilde
Image
I never saw anybody take so long to dress, and with such little result.
Oscar Wilde
Image
For he who lives more lives than one more deaths than one must die.
Oscar Wilde
Image
Art persists, it timelessly continues.
Oscar Wilde
Image
The weather still continues charming.
Oscar Wilde
Image
We live in the age of the overworked and the undereducated.
Oscar Wilde
Image
Imagination is imitative-the real innovation lies in criticism.
Oscar Wilde
Image
Music is the perfect type of art.
Oscar Wilde
Image
The birds that were singing in the dew-drenched garden seemed to be telling the flowers about her.
Oscar Wilde
Image
Beauty is a form of genius -- is higher, indeed, than genius, as it needs no explanation.
Oscar Wilde
Image
It is in the brain, and the brain only, that the great sins of the world take place also. You, Mr. Gray, you yourself, with yourrose-red youth and your rose-white boyhood, you have had passions that have made you afraid, thoughts that have filled you with terror, day-dreams and sleeping dreams whose mere memory might stain your cheek with shame.
Oscar Wilde
Image
I beg your pardon I didn't recognise you - I've changed a lot.
Oscar Wilde
Image
Men know life too early. Women know life too late. That is the difference between men and women.
Oscar Wilde
Image
Ignorance is like a delicate exotic fruit touch it and the bloom is gone.
Oscar Wilde
Image
The reason we are so pleased to find other people's secrets is that it distracts public attention from our own.
Oscar Wilde
Image
Private information is practically the source of every large modern fortune.
Oscar Wilde
Image
That is what the highest criticism really is, the record of one's own soul. It is more fascinating than history, as it is concerned simply with oneself. It is more delightful than philosophy, as its subject is concrete and not abstract, real and not vague. It is the only civilized form of autobiography.
Oscar Wilde
Image
The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it. Resist it, and your soul grows sick with longing for the things it has forbidden to itself, with desire for what its monstrous laws have made monstrous and unlawful.
Oscar Wilde