"The world is changed because you are made of ivory and gold. The curves of your lips rewrite history.
More Oscar Wilde quotes
"A man can be happy with any woman as long as he does not love her.
"People are afraid of themselves, nowadays. They have forgotten the highest of all duties, the duty that one owes to one's self. Of course, they are ch...
"Always! That is a dreadful word. It makes me shudder when I hear it. Women are so fond of using it. They spoil every romance by trying to make it last...
"His sudden mad love for Sibyl Vane was a psychological phenomenon of no small interest. There was no doubt that curiosity had much to do with it, curi...
"I like men who have a future and women who have a past.
"The only difference between a caprice and a lifelong passion is that the caprice lasts a little longer.
"The heart was made to be broken.
"Are ALL men bad?Oh, all of them, my dear, all of them, without any exception. And they never grow any better. Men become old, but they never become go...
"I have been right, Basil, haven’t I, to take my love out of poetry, and to find my wife in Shakespeare’s plays? Lips that Shakespeare taught to speak ...
"Who, being loved, is poor?
"A sentimentalist is simply one who desires to have the luxury of an emotion without paying for it.
"Women love us for our defects. If we have enough of them, they will forgive us everything, even our gigantic intellects.
"You came to me to learn the Pleasure of Life and the Pleasure of Art. Perhaps I am chosen to teach you something much more wonderful, the meaning of S...
"Men marry because they are tired; women, because they are curious; both are disappointed.