Oscar Wilde Quotes
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The world was my oyster but I used the wrong fork.
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Art never expresses anything but itself.
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Nothing is so dangerous as being too modern; one is apt to grow old fashioned quite suddenly.
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The moment you think you understand a great work of art, it's dead for you.
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The only way a woman can ever reform her husband is by boring him so completely that he loses all possible interest in life.
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Children begin by loving their parents; after a time they judge them; rarely, if ever, do they forgive them.
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Nature is always behind the age.
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A dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight, and his punishment is that he sees the dawn before the rest of the world.
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Common sense is the enemy of Romance.
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Always forgive your enemies - nothing annoys them so much.
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I can sympathize with everything, except suffering.
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It is only the modern that ever becomes old-fashioned.
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Friendship is far more tragic than love. It lasts longer.
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Ridicule is the tribute paid to the genius by the mediocrities.
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To be natural is such a very difficult pose to keep up.
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Those who see any difference between soul and body have neither.
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Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.
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A man can be happy with any woman, as long as he does not love her.
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Alas, I am dying beyond my means.
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Frank Harris has been received in all the great houses - once.
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Romance should never begin with sentiment. It should begin with science and end with a settlement.
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What a silly thing love is! It is not half as useful as logic, for it does not prove anything and it is always telling one things that are not going to happen, and making one believe things that are not true.
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Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery that mediocrity can pay to greatness.
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Men as a rule love with their eyes, woman with their ears.