Oscar Wilde

An actor is part illusionist, part artist, part ham.

Oscar Wilde

An alliterative prefix served as an ornament of oratory.

Oscar Wilde

An artist should create beautiful things, but should put nothing of his own life into them.

Oscar Wilde

An egg is always an adventure; the next one may be different.

Oscar Wilde

An engagement should come on a young girl as a surprise, pleasant or unpleasant as the case may be.

Oscar Wilde

And alien tears will fill for him pity’s long broken urn. For his mourners will all be outcast men, and outcasts always mourn.

Oscar Wilde

And all the woods are alive with the murmur and sound of Spring, And the rose-bud breaks into pink on the climbing briar, And the crocus-bed is a quivering moon of fire Girdled round with the belt of an amethyst ring.

Oscar Wilde

And all, but lust, is turned to dust In humanity’s machine.

Oscar Wilde

And certainly once a man begins to neglect his domestic duties he becomes painfully effeminate, does he not? And I don’t like that. It makes men so very attractive.

Oscar Wilde

And down the long and silent street, the dawn, with silver-sandaled feet, crept like a frightened girl.

Oscar Wilde