Oscar Wilde Quotes

Illusion is the first of all pleasures.

Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone elses opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.

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

She lacks the indefinable charm of weakness.

Why was I born with such contemporaries?

If you are not too long, I will wait here for you all my life.

No man is rich enough to buy back his past.

No object is so beautiful that, under certain conditions, it will not look ugly.

The world has grown suspicious of anything that looks like a happily married life.

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

When a man has once loved a woman he will do anything for her except continue to love her.

A woman will flirt with anyone in the world, so long as other women are looking on.

She wore far too much rouge last night and not quite enough clothes. That is always a sign of despair in a woman.

The basis of optimism is sheer terror.