Oscar Wilde Quotes
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I see when men love women. They give them but a little of their lives. But women when they love give everything.
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Every great man nowadays has his disciples, and it is always Judas who writes the biography.
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Morality is simply the attitude we adopt towards people whom we personally dislike.
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The well bred contradict other people. The wise contradict themselves.
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What is a cynic? A man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing.
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Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live, it is asking others to live as one wishes to live.
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The truth is rarely pure and never simple.
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Hatred is blind, as well as love.
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Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead.
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It is awfully hard work doing nothing.
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Men as a rule love with their eyes, woman with their ears.
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When a man has once loved a woman he will do anything for her except continue to love her.
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If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all.
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In all matters of opinion, our adversaries are insane.
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To love one's self is the beginning of a life-long romance.
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An acquaintance that begins with a compliment is sure to develop into a real friendship.
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Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love, but no friendship.
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Starvation, and not sin, is the parent of modern crime.
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Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months.
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Life imitates art far more than art imitates Life.
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Even the disciple has his uses. He stands behind one's throne, and at the moment of one's triumph whispers in one's ear that, after all, one is immortal.
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Always forgive your enemies - nothing annoys them so much.
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Psychology is in its infancy, as a science. I hope in the interests of Art, it will always remain so.
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A man can't be too careful in the choice of his enemies.