Quotes from Oscar Wilde

I am tired of myself tonight. I should like to be somebody else.

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.

In this world there are only two tragedies. One is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it. (Mr. Dumby, Act III)

The public is wonderfully tolerant. It forgives everything except genius.

Hear no evil, speak no evil, and you won't be invited to cocktail parties.

I never put off till tomorrow what I can possibly do - the day after.

A little sincerity is a dangerous thing, and a great deal of it is absolutely fatal.

The mystery of love is greater than the mystery of death.

A man can be happy with any woman as long as he does not love her.

I knew nothing but shadows and I thought them to be real.

This wallpaper is dreadful, one of us will have to go.

One should always be in love. That's the reason one should never marry.

All art is quite useless.

He has no enemies, but is intensely disliked by his friends.

If I am occasionally a little over-dressed, I make up for it by being always immensely over-educated.

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 a warmth and a richness to life that nothing else can bring.

The most terrible thing about it is not that it breaks one's heart—hearts are made to be broken—but that it turns one's heart to stone.

Music makes one feel so romantic - at least it always gets on one's nerves - which is the same thing nowadays.

I don't say we all ought to misbehave. But we ought to look as if we could

Always! That is a dreadful word. It makes me shudder when I hear it. Women are so fond of using it. They spoil every romance by trying to make it last forever. It is a meaningless word, too. The only difference between a caprice and a life-long passion is that the caprice lasts a little longer.

I like persons better than principles, and I like persons with no principles better than anything else in the world.

Only the shallow know themselves

I love acting. It is so much more real than life.

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