Top 15 Oscar Wilde Quotes

With freedom, flowers, books, and the moon, who could not be perfectly happy?

To define is to limit.

Death must be so beautiful. To lie in the soft brown earth, with the grasses waving above one's head, and listen to silence. To have no yesterday, and no tomorrow. To forget time, to forgive life, to be at peace.

Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go.

Nowadays people know the price of everything and the value of nothing.

I don't want to be at the mercy of my emotions. I want to use them, to enjoy them, and to dominate them.

Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.

I can resist anything except temptation.

A cynic is a man who knows the price of everything, and the value of nothing.

All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does, and that is his.

Behind every exquisite thing that existed, there was something tragic.

The only way to get rid of temptation is to yield to it.

I am too fond of reading books to care to write them.

There is only one thing in the world worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about.

To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.