Oscar Wilde
224 quotations
We have really everything in common with America nowadays, except, of course, language.
Cultivated leisure is the aim of man.
When liberty comes with hands dabbled in blood it is hard to shake hands with her.
To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.
The man who says he has exhausted life generally means that life has exhausted him.
Life, Lady Stutfield, is simply a mauvais quart d'heure made up of exquisite moments.
The suspense is terrible, I hope it will last.
He would stab his best friend for the sake of writing an epigram on his tombstone.
Arguments are to be avoided; they are always vulgar and often convincing.
I dislike arguments of any kind. They are always vulgar, and often convincing.
One should always be in love. That is the reason one should never marry.
Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead.
When a man has once loved a woman, he will do anything for her, except continue to love her.
There is always something ridiculous about the emotions of people whom one has ceased to love.
If you are not too long, I will wait here for you all my life.
They flaunt their conjugal felicity in one's face, as if it were the most fascinating of sins.
Men marry because they are tired; women, because they are curious; both are disappointed.
In old days men had the rack. Now they have the Press.
Memory is the diary that we all carry about with us.
A man can be happy with any woman, as long as he does not love her.
What is mind but motion in the intellectual sphere?
There are many things that we would throw away if we were not afraid that others might pick them up.
There is always something infinitely mean about other people's tragedies.
Experience is the name we give to our mistakes.
Life would be dull without them.