Oscar Wilde Quotes
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Is she such a mystery? She is more than a mystery - she is a mood. Moods don't last. It is their chief charm.
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The aim of love is to love. No more, no less.
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And if it feels good... Feel it!
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The first duty of life is to be as artificial as possible. What the second duty is no one as yet discovered.
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The artistic life is a long, lovely suicide.
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The weather still continues charming.
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Better the rule of One, whom all obey, than to let clamorous demagogues betray our freedom with the kiss of anarchy.
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It is perfectly monstrous the way people go about nowadays saying things against one, behind one's back, that are absolutely and entirely true.
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I was wrong. God's law is only Love.
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Imagination is a quality given a man to compensate him for what he is not, and a sense of humor was provided to console him for what he is.
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Only the shallow know themselves.
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The man who says his wife can't take a joke, forgets that she took him.
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Men always want to be a woman's first love. That is their clumsy vanity. We woman have a more subtle instinct about things. What we like is to be a man's last romance.
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Wherever there is a man who exercises authority, there is a man who resists authority.
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Sarcasm is the lowest form of wit.
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An opinion is not necesarily correct just because you're willing to die for it.
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All trials are trials for one’s life, just as all sentences are sentences of death.
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To expect the unexpected shows a thoroughly modern intellect.
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The only way to get rid of temptation is to yield to it... I can resist everything but temptation.
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The world has been made by fools that men should live in it.
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I have never given adoration to anyone except myself.
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No great artist ever sees things as they really are. If he did, he would cease to be an artist.
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The value of an idea has nothing whatever to do with the sincerity of the man who expresses it.
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No art ever survived censorship; no art ever will.