Oscar Wilde Quotes
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Well, I don't like your clothes. You look perfectly ridiculous in them. Why on earth don't you go up and change? It's perfectly childish to be in mourning for a man who is actually staying a whole week with you in your house as a guest. I call it grotesque.
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To give and not expect return, that is what lies at the heart of love.
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Every single work of art is the fulfillment of a prophecy; for every work of art is the conversion of an idea into an image.
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I like talking to a brick wall- it's the only thing in the world that never contradicts me!
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A woman who cannot make her mistakes charming, is only a female.
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The face of the enemy frightens me only when I see how much it resembles me.
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Life is not complex. We are complex. Life is simple, and the simple thing is the right thing.
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My wish isn't to mean everything to everyone but something to someone.
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Experience is a question of instinct about life.
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Learn to differentiate between ignorance and stupidity.
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My experience is that as soon as people are old enough to know better, they don't know anything at all.
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Good taste is the excuse I have given for leading such a bad life.
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Each of the professions means a prejudice. The necessity for a career forces every one to take sides. We live in the age of the overworked, and the under-educated; the age in which people are so industrious that they become absolutely stupid.
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There is only one real tragedy in a woman's life. The fact that her past is always her lover, and her future invariably her husband.
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Every woman is a rebel, and usually in wild revolt against herself.
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Insincerity is merely a method by which we can multiply our personalities.
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The secret of life is never to have an emotion that is unbecoming.
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Sympathy with joy intensifies the sum of sympathy in the world, sympathy with pain does not really diminish the amount of pain.
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And all, but Lust, is turned to dustIn Humanity's machine.
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Oh, duty is what one expects from others, it is not what one does oneself.
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You don't love someone for their looks, or their clothes, or for their fancy car, but because they sing a song only you can hear.
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The most terrible thing about it is not that it breaks one’s heart — hearts are made to be broken — but that it turns one’s heart to stone.
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We teach people how to remember, we never teach them how to grow.
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As for a spoiled life, no life is spoiled but one whose growth is arrested.