Oscar Wilde Quotes

You have killed my love. You used to stir my imagination. Now you don't even stir my curiosity. You simply produce no effect. I loved you because you were marvelous, because you had genius and intelle...

You know I have loved him always.But we are very poor.Who, being loved, is poor? Oh, no one. I hate my riches. They are a burden...

You must have a cigarette. A cigarette is the perfect type of a perfect pleasure. It is exquisite, and it leaves one unsatisfied. What more can one want?

I think that God, in creating man, somewhat overestimated his ability.

The salesman knows nothing of what he is selling save that he is charging a great deal too much for it.

One's real life is so often the life that one does not lead.

Hatred is blind, as well as love.

Life is not complex. We are complex. Life is simple, and the simple thing is the right thing.

I believe that if one man were to live out his life fully and completely, were to give form to every feeling, expression to every thought, reality to every dream - I believe that the world would gain...

Journalism is unreadable, and literature is unread.

All I want now is to look at life.

Failure is only the name that we give to our mistakes."-Oscar Wilde

A writer is someone who has taught his mind to misbehave.

Experience is the name we give to our mistakes.

Morality does not help me. I am a born antinomian...I see that there is nothing wrong in what one does. I see that there is something wrong in what one becomes.

America had often been discovered before Columbus, but it had always been hushed up.

All charming people, I fancy, are spoiled. It is the secret of their attraction.

Within this restless, hurried, modern worldWe took our hearts' full pleasure - You and I,And now the white sails of our ship are furled,And spent the lading of our argosy.Wherefore my cheeks before th...

The 19thc hatred of Realism is Caliban's enraged reaction to seeing his own face in the mirror. The 19thc rejection of Romanticism is Caliban's fury at not seeing his face reflected in the mirror.

There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written or badly written. That is all.