Oscar Wilde Quotes

One should never trust a woman who tells one her real age. A woman who would tell one that would tell one anything.

The best way to make children good is to make them happy.

Life is not governed by will or intention. Life is a question of nerves and fibers and slowly built-up cells in which thought hides itself and passion has its dreams.

Out of the unreal shadows of the night comes back the real life that we had known

I regard the theatre as the greatest of all art forms, the most immediate way in which a human being can share with another the sense of what it is to be a human being.

Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself would say that it had merely been detected.

The moment you think you understand a great work of art, it's dead for you.

I want my food dead. Not sick, not dying, dead.

Ideals are dangerous things. Realities are better. They wound, but they're better.

You will always be fond of me. I represent to you all the sins you have never had the courage to commit.

Never love anyone who treats you like you're ordinary.

The old believe everything: the middle-aged suspect everything: the young know everything.

Cheap editions of great books may be delightful, but cheap editions of great men are absolutely detestable

Literature always anticipates life. It doesn't copy it but moulds it to it's purpose.

What we have to do, what at any rate it is our duty to do, is to revive the old art of Lying.

Men always want to be a woman's first love - women like to be a man's last romance.

One could never pay too high a price for any sensation.

I never approve, or disapprove, of anything now. It is an absurd attitude to take towards life. We are not sent into the world to air our moral prejudices. I never take any notice of what common peopl...

Love does not traffic in a marketplace, nor use a huckster's scales. Its joy, like the joy of the intellect, is to feel itself alive. The aim of Love is to love: no more, and no less. You were my enem...

To regret one’s own experiences is to arrest one’s own development. To deny one’s own experiences is to put a lie into the lips of one’s own life. It is no less than a denial of the soul.