Oscar Wilde Quotes

To be natural is such a very difficult pose to keep up.

Nature is always behind the age.

The more one analyses people, the more all reasons for analysis disappear. Sooner or later one comes to that dreadful universal thing called human nature.

The suspense is terrible. I hope it will last.

She is more than a mystery – she is a mood.

Music makes one feel so romantic – at least it always gets on one’s nerves – which is the same thing nowadays.

Of course music is a great difficulty. You see, if one plays good music, people don’t listen, and if one plays bad music people don’t talk.

I like Wagner’s music better than anybody’s. It’s so loud that one can talk the whole time without other people hearing what one says. That is a great advantage.

If one hears bad music it is one’s duty to drown it by one’s conversation.

Musical people always want one to be perfectly dumb at the very moment when one is longing to be perfectly deaf.