Oscar Wilde Quotes

She is not a subject.

After the first glass you see things as you wish they were. After the second glass you see things as they are not. Finally, you see things as they really are, and that is the most horrible thing in the world.

Starvation, and not sin, is the parent of modern crime.

Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead. The consciousness of loving and being loved brings warmth and richness to life that nothing else can bring.

Prayer must never be answered: if it is, it ceases to be prayer and becomes correspondence.

I have the kiss of Walt Whitman still on my lip.

Psycholog­y is in its infancy, as a science. I hope in the interests of Art, it will always remain so.

He to whom the present is the only thing that is present, knows nothing of the age in which he lives.

One can survive everything nowadays except death.

Tell me, when you are alone with him [ Max Beerbohm ] Sphinx, does he take off his face and reveal his mask?

It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.

People who count their chickens before they are hatched act very wisely because chickens run about so absurdly that it's impossible to count them accurately...

I summed up all systems in a phrase, and all existence in an epigram.

On George Bernard Shaw An excellent man: he has no enemies, and none of his friends like him.

J'ai mis tout mon génie dans ma vie; je n'ai mis que mon talent dans mes œuvres.