Oscar Wilde Quotes

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

How can a woman be expected to be happy with a man who insists on treating her as if she were a perfectly normal human being.

Nowadays most people die of a sort of creeping common sense, and discover when it is too late that the only things one never regrets are one's mistakes.

Conscience and cowardice are really the same things, Basil. Conscience is the trade-name of the firm. That is all.

Religions die when they are proved to be true. Science is the record of dead religions.

If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all.

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...

Experience is the name so many people give to their mistakes.

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.

It is the duty of every father... to write fairy tales for his children.

All I want to do now is look at life. You may come and look at it with me, if you care to.

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...

We can forgive a man for making a useful thing as long as he does not admire it. The only excuse for making a useless thing is that one admires it intensely.All art is quite useless.

There is something terribly morbid in the modern sympathy with pain. One should sympathise with the colour, the beauty, the joy of life. The less said about life's sores the better.

What fire does not destroy, it hardens

I always pass on good advice. It is the only thing to do with it. It is never of any use to oneself.

Romance should never begin with sentiment. It should begin with science and end with a settlement.

I threw the pearl of my soul into a cup of wine. I went down the primrose path to the sound of flutes. I lived on honeycomb.

Those who find ugly meanings in beautiful things are corrupt without being charming. This is a fault. Those who find beautiful meanings in beautiful things are the cultivated. For these there is hope....

The one charm about the past is that it is the past.