Quotes from Oscar Wilde

That's always seemed so ridiculous to me, that people would want to be around someone because they're pretty. It's like picking your breakfast cereals based on color instead of taste.

Ideals are dangerous things.  Realities are better.  They wound

Your cynicism is simply a pose.

And Sleep will not lie down, but walks Wild-eyed and cries to Time.

Dorian Gray frowned and turned his head away. He could not help liking the tall, graceful young man who was standing by him. His romantic, olive-coloured face and worn expression interested him. There was something in his low languid voice that was absolutely fascinating. His cool, white, flowerlike hands, even, had a curious charm. They moved, as he spoke, like music, and seemed to have a language of their own. But he felt afraid of him, and ashamed of being afraid.

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.

Art and art only, can make archaeology beautiful; and the theatric art can use it most directly and most vividly, for it can combine in one exquisite presentation the illusion of actual life with the wonder of the unreal world.

Charity creates a multitude of sins.

I suffered immensely. Then it passed away. I cannot repeat an emotion. No one can, except sentimentalists.

He was dreadfully short-sighted, and there was no pleasure in taking a husband who never sees anything.

I must confess that most modern mysticism seems to me to be simply a method of imparting useless knowledge in a form that no one can understand

I always pass on good advice.  It is the only thing to do with it.  It is never of any use to oneself. mabel