Oscar Wilde Quotes
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An inordinate passion for pleasure is the secret of remaining young.
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I can believe anything as long as it is incredible.
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Now it seems to me that love of some kind is the only possible explanation of the extraordinary amount of suffering that there is in the world.
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The only thing in the world worse than being Oscar Wilde is not being Oscar Wilde.
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After the first glass you see things as you wish they were. After the second glass you see things as they are not. Finally, you see things as they really are, and that is the most horrible thing in the world.
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Everything in moderation, including moderation.
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Other people are quite dreadful. The only possible society is oneself.
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Sometimes, the unnecessary is necessary.
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Thirty-five is a very attractive age. London society is full of women of the very highest birth who have, of their own free choice, remained thirty-five for years.
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Things last either too long, or not long enough.
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Disobedience, in the eyes of any one who has read history, is man's original virtue. It is through disobedience that progress has been made, through disobedience and through rebellion.
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Ideals are dangerous things. Realities are better. They wound, but they're better.
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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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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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It can never be necessary to do what is not honourable.
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Pleasure is the only thing one should live for, nothing ages like happiness.
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The worst thing to do with success, is to boast about it.
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To be premature is to be perfect.
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Only the great masters of style ever succeed in being obscure.
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Life is never fair, and perhaps it is a good thing for most of us that it is not.
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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 study of law is sublime, and its practice vulgar.
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Women are never disarmed by compliments. Men always are. That is the difference between the sexes.
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Reforms in Russia are very tragic, but they always end in a farce.