Quotes from Oscar Wilde

Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love, but no friendship.

A man who does not think for himself does not think at all.

Friendship is far more tragic than love. It lasts longer.

Work is the curse of the drinking classes.

I really don't see anything romantic in proposing. It is very romantic to be in love. But there is nothing romantic about a definite proposal. Why, one may be accepted. One usually is, I believe. Then the excitement is all over. The very essence of romance is uncertainty. If ever I get married, I'll certainly try to forget the fact.

I adore simple pleasures. They are the last refuge of the complex.

Deceiving others. That is what the world calls a romance.

Some things are too important to be taken seriously.

Hearts Live By Being Wounded

There is always something ridiculous about the emotions of people whom one has ceased to love.

I love to talk about nothing. It's the only thing I know anything about.

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.

A flower blossoms for its own joy.

Ah! The strength of women comes from the fact that psychology cannot explain us. Men can be analyzed, women...merely adored.

One has a right to judge a man by the effect he has over his friends.

It is only shallow people who require years to get rid of an emotion. A man who is master of himself can end a sorrow as easily as he can invent a pleasure. I don't want to be at the mercy of my emotions. I want to use them, to enjoy them, and to dominate them.

It takes great courage to see the world in all its tainted glory, and still to love it. And even more courage to see it in the one you love

In old days books were written by men of letters and read by the public. Nowadays books are written by the public and read by nobody.

After the first glass, you see things as you wish they were. After the second, 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.

Misfortunes one can endure--they come from outside, they are accidents. But to suffer for one's own faults--ah!--there is the sting of life.

Man is many things, but he is not rational.

I have no objection to anyone's sex life as long as they don't practice it in the street and frighten the horses.

Ordinary riches can be stolen, real riches cannot. In your soul are infinitely precious things that cannot be taken from you.

Life is not complex. We are complex. Life is simple, and the simple thing is the right thing.