Oscar Wilde Quotes

When I like people immensely I never tell their names to anyone. It is like surrendering a part of them. I have grown to love secrecy.

You are a wonderful creation. You know more than you think you know, just as you know less than you want to know.

You like every one; that is to say, you are indifferent to every one.

You silly Arthur! If you knew anything about...anything, which you don't, you would know that I adore you. Everyone in London knows it except you. It is a public scandal the way I adore you. I have be...

The Garden of DeathYes, death. Death must be so beautiful. To lie in the softbrown earth, with the grasses waving above one's head, andlisten to silence. To have no yesterday, and no to-morrow. Toforg...

I suppose society is wonderfully delightful. To be in it is merely a bore. But to be out of it is simply a tragedy.

All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That's his.

She wore far too much rouge last night and not quite enough clothes. That is always a sign of despair in a woman.

Truth, in matters of religion, is simply the opinion that has survived.

You can never be overdressed or overeducated.

Give women the right opportunities and they are capable of everything.

And how delightful other people's emotions were!-much more delightful than their ideas, it seemed to him. One's own soul, and the passions of one's friends-those were the fascinating things in life.

The difference between literature and journalism is that journalism is unreadable and literature is not read

One's past is what one is. It is the only way by which people should be judged.

And if life be, as it surely is, a problem to me, I am no less a problem to life.

I am not young enough to know everything.

Wherever there is a man who exercises authority, there is a man who resists authority.

Good artists exist simply in what they make and consequently are perfectly uninteresting in what they are.

Yet each man kills the thing he loves By each let this be heard Some do it with a bitter look Some with a flattering word The coward does it with a kiss The brave man with a sword.

We are all in the gutter but some of us are looking at the stars.