Oscar Wilde Quotes

All art is at once surface and symbol. Those who go beneath the surface do so at their peril.

Do you smoke?Well, yes, I must admit I smoke.I'm glad to hear of it. A man should always have an occupation of some kind.

Each man kills the thing he loves.

Even before I met you I was far from indifferent to you.

Even men of the noblest possible moral character are extremely susceptible to the influence of the physical charms of others. Modern, no less then Ancient History, supplies us with many most painful e...

God made the world just as much for me as for any one else.

He is fond of being misunderstood. It gives him a post of vantage.

Hearts are made to be broken.

Her trust makes me faithful, her belief makes me good.

How long could you love a woman who didn't love you, Cecil?A woman who didn't love me? Oh, all my life!

I analyzed you, though you did not adore me.

I can stand brute force, but brute reason is quite unbearable. There is something unfair about it's use. It is hitting below the intellect.

I can't help detesting my relations. I suppose it comes from the fact that none of us can stand other people having the same faults as ourselves.

I feel that if I kept it secret it might grow in my mind (as poisonous things grow in the dark) and take its place with the other terrible thoughts that gnaw me

I hate people who talk about themselves, as you do, when one wants to talk about oneself, as I do. 

I have always been of opinion that a man who desires to get married should know either everything or nothing.

I like Wagner's music better than anybody's. It is so loud that one can talk the whole time without other people hearing what one says.

I like talking to a brick wall- it's the only thing in the world that never contradicts me!

I never came across anyone in whom the moral sense was dominant who was not heartless, cruel, vindictive, log-stupid, and entirely lacking in the smallest sense of humanity. Moral people, as they are...

I really don't see what is so romantic about proposing. One may be accepted - one usually is, I believe - and then the excitement is ended. The very essence of romance is uncertainty.