About Oscar Wilde: Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde is remembered for his epigrams, his novel The Picture of Dorian Gray, his plays, as well as the circumstances of his imprisonment and early death.
Anybody can sympathise with the sufferings of a friend, but it requires a very fine nature to sympathise with a friend's success.
Friendship...is not something you learn in school,but if you haven't learned the meaning of friendship you really haven't learned anything.
I quite agree with Dr. Nordau's assertion that all men of genius are insane, but Dr. Nordau forgets that all sane people are idiots.
If you want to be a grocer, or a general, or a politician, or a judge, you will invariably become it; that is your punishment. If you never know what you want to be, if you live what some might call the dynamic life but what I will call the artistic ...
If there is anything more annoying in the world than having people talk about you, it is certainly having no one talk about you.
Pleasure is the only thing one should live for, nothing ages like happiness.
I'm exhausted. I spent all morning putting in a comma and all afternoon taking it out
One knows so well the popular idea of health: the English country gentleman galloping after a fox - the unspeakable in full pursuit of the unbeatable.
Hearts Live By Being Wounded
The heart was made to be broken.
Ah! Happy they whose hearts can break And peace of pardon win! How else may man make straight his path And cleanse his soul from sin? How else but through a broken heart May the Lord Christ enter in?
Anybody can make history; only a great man can write it.
The Noblest form of Affection
The highest as the lowest form of criticism is a mode of autobiography. Those who find ugly meanings in beautiful things are corrupt without being charming. This is a fault.
The only thing that one really knows about human nature is that it changes. Change is the one quality we can predicate of it.
I like men who have a future and women who have a past.
The world is a stage and the play is badly cast.
There are only two kinds of people who are really fascinating: people who know absolutely everything, and people who know absolutely nothing.
One should always be in love. That's the reason one should never marry.
The only way a woman can ever reform a man is by boring him so completely that he loses all possible interest in life.
I have nothing to declare except my genius.
