Oscar Wilde Quotes
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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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Extravagance is the luxury of the poor; penury is the luxury of the rich.
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Wickedness is a myth invented by good people to account for the curious attraction of others.
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Pleasure is the only thing one should live for, nothing ages like happiness.
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To be premature is to be perfect.
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We live in an age when unnecessary things are our only necessities.
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There is no feeling more comforting and consoling than knowing you are right next to the one you love.
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There is no man who is not, at each moment, what he has been and what he will be.
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Love is easily killed.
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Many people become bankrupt through having invested too heavily in the prose of life. To have ruined one's self over poetry is an honor.
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Good taste is the excuse I have given for leading such a bad life.
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What men call the shadow of the body is not the shadow of the body, but is the body of the soul.
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America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between.
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Only the great masters of style ever succeed in being obscure.
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I never approve, or disapprove, of anything now. It is an absurd attitude to take towards life.
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True love is just like regular love, but with more truth.
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Women are never disarmed by compliments. Men always are. That is the difference between the sexes.
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It is always the unreadable that occurs.
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It can never be necessary to do what is not honourable.
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Things are in their essence what we choose to make them. A thing is, according to the mode in which one looks at it.