"The mutilation of the savage has its tragic survival in the self-denial that mars our lives.
Life has always poppies in her hands.
More Oscar Wilde quotes
"Beauty is one of the great facts of the world, like sunlight,or springtime, or the reflection in dark waters of that silver shell we call the moon. Yo...
"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...
"We can have in life but one great experience at best, and the secret of life is to reproduce that experience as often as possible.
"tone of colour in a room or a morning sky, a particular perfume that you had once loved and that brings subtle memories with it, a line from a forgott...
"The greatest events of life often leave one unmoved; they pass out of consciousness, and, when one thinks of them, become unreal. Even the scarlet flo...
"The evolution of man is slow. The injustice of men is great.
"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 ...
"Life imitates art far more than art imitates Life.
"If you want to be a grocer, or a general, or a politician, or a judge, you will invariably become it; that is your punishment. If you never know what ...
"[Letter to William Ward, 11 July 1878]Dear Boy, Why don’t you write to me? I don’t know what has become of you.As for me I am ruined. The law suit is ...
"To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.
"The one charm about marriage is that it makes a life of deception absolutely necessary for both parties.
"There is something terribly morbid in the modern sympathy with pain. One should sympathise with the colour, the beauty, the joy of life. The less said...