Quotes by Wilde, Oscar

What a fuss people make about fidelity! Why, even in love it is purely >>

The mere mechanical technique of acting can be taught, but the spirit >>

There is always something infinitely mean about other people's tragedi >>

Quotations about Names

We don't know when our name came into being or how some distant ancest >>

How could I have been anything else but what I am, having been named M >>

Any child can tell you that the sole purpose of a middle name is so he >>

It is a sad truth, but we have lost the faculty of giving lovely names to things. Names are everything. I never quarrel with actions. My one quarrel is with words. The man who could call a spade a spade should be compelled to use one. It is the only thing he is fit for.

Wilde, Oscar