I have always been of opinion that a man who desires to get married should know either everything or nothing.
Oscar WildeCome, dear, [Gwendolen rises] we have already missed five, if not six, trains. To miss any more might expose us to comment on the platform.
Oscar WildeShe is very clever, too clever for a woman. She lacks the indefinable charm of weakness.
Oscar WildeSympathy with joy intensifies the sum of sympathy in the world, sympathy with pain does not really diminish the amount of pain.
Oscar WildeAll art is at once surface and symbol. Those who go beneath the surface do so at their peril. Those who read the symbol do so at their peril. It is the spectator, and not life, that art really mirrors. Diversity of opinion about a work of art shows that the work is new, complex, and vital. When critics disagree, the artist is in accord with himself.
Oscar Wilde