Oscar Wilde Quotes

There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book.
Books are well written, or badly written. That is all.

How do you do, Lord Darlington? I won’t let you know my daughter, you are far too wicked. LORD DARLINGTON: Don’t say that, Duchess. As a wicked man I am a complete failure. Why, there are lots of people who say I have never really done anything wrong in the whole course of my life. Of course they only say it behind my back.

A flower blossoms for its own joy.

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

He wanted to be where no one would know who he was. He wanted to escape from himself.

LADY WINDERMERE: Why do you talk so trivially about life, then? LORD DARLINGTON: Because I think that life is far too important a thing ever to talk seriously about it.

Art is the most intense mode of individualism that the world has known. I am inclined to say that it is the only real mode of individualism that the world has known. Crime, which, under certain conditions, may seem to have created individualism, must take cognisance of other people and interfere with them. It belongs to the sphere of action. But alone, without any reference to his neighbours, without any interference, the artist can fashion a beautiful thing; and if he does not do it solely for his own pleasure, he is not an artist at all.

There are only two tragedies in life: one is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it.

Life is far too important a thing ever to talk seriously about it.

Paradoxically though it may seem, it is none the less true that life imitates art far more than art imitates life.

My life-my whole life- take it, and do with it what you will. I love you-love you as I have never loved any living thing. From the moment I met you I loved you, loved you blindly, adoringly,madly!

You didn't know it then-you know it now.

To regret one’s own experiences is to arrest one’s own development. To deny one’s own experiences is to put a lie into the lips of one’s own life. It is no less than a denial of the soul.

Art is the most intense mode of individualism that the world has known.

A thing is, according to the mode in which one looks at it.

Every woman is a rebel, and usually in wild revolt against herself.