"Cold were the lips, yet he kissed them. Salt was the honey of the hair, yet he tasted it with a bitter joy. He kissed the closed eyelids, and the wild...
Who, being loved, is poor?
More Oscar Wilde quotes
"I really don't see anything romantic in proposing. It is very romantic to be in love. But there is nothing romantic about a definite proposal. Why, on...
"The very essence of romance is uncertainty.
"The loves and sorrows that are great are destroyed by their own plentitude.
"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 ...
"To be popular one must be a mediocrity.""Not with Women," said the duchess, shaking her head; "and women rule the world. I assure you we can't bear me...
"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.
"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...
"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...
"The Noblest form of Affection
"The heart was made to be broken.
"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 ...
"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...