Oscar Wilde Quotes

As for omens, there is no such thing as an omen. Destiny does not send us heralds. She is too wise or too cruel for that.

I don’t regret for a single moment having lived for pleasure.
I did it to the full, as one should do everything that one does. There was no pleasure I did not experience.

I don't want to go to heaven. None of my friends are there.

Never regret thy fall,
O Icarus of the fearless flight
For the greatest tragedy of them all
Is never to feel the burning light.

A flower blossoms for its own joy.

Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live, it is asking others to live as one wishes to live.

When one is in love, one always begins by deceiving one's self, and one always ends by deceiving others. That is what the world calls a romance.

Life is a nightmare that prevents one from sleeping.

I love talking about nothing, father. It is the only thing I know anything about.

When we are happy, we are always good, but when we are good, we are not always happy.

The one duty we owe to history is to rewrite it.

I am the only person in the world I should like to know thoroughly.

The only artists I have ever known who are personally delightful are bad artists. Good artists exist simply in what they make, and consequently are perfectly uninteresting in what they are. A great poet, a really great poet, is the most unpoetical of all creatures. But inferior poets are absolutely fascinating. The worse their rhymes are, the more picturesque they look. The mere fact of having published a book of second-rate sonnets makes a man quite irresistible. He lives the poetry that he cannot write. The others write the poetry that they dare not realize.

Jack: “Gwendolen, wait here for me.”
Gwendolen: “If you are not too long, I will wait here for you all my life.

It seems to me that we all look at Nature too much, and live with her too little.