Oscar Wilde Quotes

I never change, except in my affections.

I never saw anybody take so long to dress, and with such little result.

If I am occasionally a little over-dressed, I make up for it by being always immensely over-educated.

JACKYour duty as a gentleman calls you back. ALGERNONMy duty as a gentleman has never interfered with my pleasures in the smallest degree.

LADY BRACKNELLThirty-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. Lady Dumbleton is an i...

LADY BRACKNELL. May I ask if it is in this house that your invalid friend Mr. Bunbury resides?ALGERNON. [Stammering.] Oh! No! Bunbury doesn't live here. Bunbury is somewhere else at present. In fact,...

Nothing can cure the soul but the senses, just as nothing can cure the senses but the soul.

Nothing should be out of the reach of hope. Life is a hope.

Only love can keep anyone alive...

People are very fond of giving away what they need most themselves.

RequiescatTread lightly, she is nearUnder the snow,Speak gently, she can hearThe daisies grow.All her bright golden hairTarnished with rust,She that was young and fairFallen to dust.Lily-like, white a...

The living always think that gold can make them happy

The long black nights, when the moon hides her face, when the stars are afraid, are not so black. The silence that dwells in the forest is not so black. There is nothing in the world so black as thy h...

The sky was pure opal now.

The soul is a terrible reality. It can be bought and sold and bartered away.

The very essence of romance is uncertainty.

The world seemed to me fine because you were in it, and goodness more real because you lived.

To be popular one must be a mediocrity.Not with Women, said the duchess, shaking her head; and women rule the world. I assure you we can't bear mediocrities. We women, as someone says, love with our e...

We women, as some one says, love with our ears, just as you men love with your eyes...

What a fuss people make about fidelity! exclaimed Lord Henry. Why, even in love it is purely a question for physiology. It has nothing to do with our own will. Young men want to be faithful, and are n...