Oscar Wilde Quotes
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She lives the poetry she cannot write.
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To expect the unexpected shows a thoroughly modern intellect.
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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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I am always astonishing myself. It is the only thing that makes life worth living.
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Every one is worthy of love, except him who thinks that he is. Love is a sacrament that should be taken kneeling.
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The emotions of man are stirred more quickly than man’s intelligence.
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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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Learn to differentiate between ignorance and stupidity.
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To begin with, I dined there on Monday, and once a week is quite enough to dine with one's own relations.
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The worst thing to do with success, is to boast about it.
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Crying is the refuge of plain women but the ruin of pretty ones.
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If we men married the women we deserved, we should have a very bad time of it.
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Only the great masters of style ever succeed in being obscure.
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Art should never try to be popular. The public should try to make itself artistic.
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Something was dead in each of us,And what was dead was Hope.
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True love is just like regular love, but with more truth.
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To be premature is to be perfect.
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The only horrible thing in the world is ennui.
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True friends stab you in the front.
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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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Love is easily killed.
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A man's face is his autobiography. A woman's face is her work of fiction.
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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.
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There is no feeling more comforting and consoling than knowing you are right next to the one you love.