Quotes from Oscar Wilde

I beg your pardon I didn't recognise you - I've changed a lot.

Each of us has heaven and hell in him...

The past could always be annihilated. Regret, denial, or forgetfulness could do that. But the future was inevitable.

If you don't get everything you want, think of the things you don't get that you don't want.

One should always be a little improbable.

A passion for pleasure is the secret of remaining young.

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

I have learned this: it is not what one does that is wrong, but what one becomes as a consequence of it.

Moderation is a fatal thing. Nothing succeeds like excess.

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.

The true mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible.

In the wild struggle for existence, we want to have something that endures, and so we fill our minds with rubbish and facts, in the silly hope of keeping our place.

I drink to separate my body from my soul.

For one moment our lives met, our souls touched.

Oh, brothers! I don't care for brothers. My elder brother won't die, and my younger brothers seem never to do anything else.

When you really want love, you will find it waiting for you.

Bigamy is having one wife too many. Monogamy is the same.

Women defend themselves by attacking, just as they attack by sudden and strange surrenders.

I am happy in my prison of passion

Its a beautiful woman's fate to be the subject of conversation where ever she goes

The only way a woman can ever reform a man is by boring him so completely that he loses all possible interest in life.

One's real life is so often the life that one does not lead.

All art is at once surface and symbol. Those who go beneath the surface do so at their peril.

If you cannot write well, you cannot think well; if you cannot think well, others will do your thinking for you.