Quotes from Oscar Wilde

Modern morality consists in accepting the standard of one's age. I consider that for any man of culture to accept the standard of his age is a form of the grossest immorality.

Have you not sometimes noted, When we unlock some long-disuséd room With heavy dust and soiling mildew filled, Where never foot of man has come for years, And from the windows take the rusty bar, And fling the broken shutters to the air, And let the bright sun in, how the good sun Turns every grimy particle of dust Into a little thing of dancing gold? Guido, my heart is that long-empty room, But you have let love in, and with its gold Gilded all life.

A strange sense of loss came over him. He felt that Dorian Gray would never again be to him all that he had been in the past. Life had come between them.... His eyes darkened, and the crowded, flaring streets became blurred to his eyes. When the cab drew up at the theatre, it seemed to him that he had grown years older.

The truth is rarely pure and never simple. 

Young men want to be faithful, and are not; old men want to be faithless, and cannot: that is all one can say.

One should never trust a woman who tells one her real age. A woman who would tell one that, would tell one anything.

You do anything in the world to gain a reputation. As soon as you have one, you seem to want to throw it away. It is silly of you, for there is only one thing in the world worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about.

My own one, I have never loved anyone in the world but you.

The husbands of very beautiful women belong to the criminal classes

That is the worst of women. They always want one to be good. And if we are good, when they meet us, they don't love us at all. They like to find us quite irretrievably bad, and to leave us quite unattractively good.

His principles were out of date, but there was a good deal to be said for his prejudices.

They have been eating muffins. That looks like repentance.

We shall be notes in that great Symphony Whose cadence circles through the rhythmic spheres, And all the live World's throbbing heart shall be One with our heart, the stealthy creeping years Have lost their terror now, we shall not die, The Universe itself shall be our Immortality!

The moment I met you I saw that you were quite unconscious of what you really are, of what you really might be. There was so much in you that charmed me that I felt I must tell you something about yourself. I thought how tragic it would be if you were wasted.

Ya sabes que nosotros, los pobres artistas, tenemos que aparecer en sociedad de cuando en cuando para recordar al público que no somos salvajes.

It is pure unadulterated country life. They get up early because they have so much to do, and go to bed early, because they have so little to think about.

Then you are quite behind the age," said the Water-rat.  "Every good story-teller nowadays starts with the end, and then goes on to the beginning, and concludes with the middle. 

No one in particular. A man of no importance. CURTAIN

a really GRANDE PASSION is comparatively rare nowadays. It is the privilege of people who have nothing to do.

Love is wiser than Philosophy, though he is wise, and mightier than Power, though he is mighty... His lips are sweet as honey, and his breath is like frankincense.

I would give my soul for that!

Olvidar un hecho, es modificar el pasado.

I adore simple pleasures," said Lord Henry. "They are the last refuge of the complex. But I don't like scenes, except on the stage.

Además, olvida usted, señor Otis, que el precio que pagó incluía tanto el castillo como el fantasma...