Quotes from Oscar Wilde

I remembered what you had said to me on that wonderful evening we first dined together, about the search for beauty being the real secret of life…

Champing his gilded oats, the Hippogriff will stand in our stalls, and over our heads will float the Blue Bird singing of beautiful and impossible things, of things that are lovely and that never happen, of things that are not and that should be.

Faithfulness! I must analyze it some day. The passion for property is in it. There are many things that we would throw away if we were not afraid that others might pick them up.

The ages live in history through their anachronisms.

had set himself to the serious study of the great aristocratic art of doing absolutely nothing.

A cold rain began to fall, and the blurred street-lamps looked ghastly in the dripping mist.

A woman will flirt with anybody in the world as long as other people are looking on.

As for a spoiled life, no life is spoiled but one whose growth is arrested. If you want to mar a nature, you have merely to reform it.

We lose too soon, and only find delight In withered husks of some dead memory.

Those who read the symbol do so at their peril.

The wind shook some blossoms from the trees, and the heavy lilac blooms, with their clustering stars, moved to and fro in the languid air. A grasshopper began to chirp by the wall, and like a blue thread a long, thin dragonfly floated past on its brown gauze wings. Lord Henry felt as if he could hear Basil Hallward's heart beating, and wondered what was coming.

Details are always vulgar