Only dull people are brilliant at breakfast.
OSCAR WILDEOnly dull people are brilliant at breakfast.
OSCAR WILDEA cynic is a man who knows the price of everything, and the value of nothing.
OSCAR WILDEIt is what you read when you don’t have to that determines what you will be when you can’t help it.
OSCAR WILDEDeath 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.
OSCAR WILDEChildren begin by loving their parents; as they grow older they judge them; sometimes they forgive them.
OSCAR WILDEIt is absurd to divide people into good and bad. People are either charming or tedious.
OSCAR WILDEWhen one is in love, one always begins by deceiving one’s self, and one always ends by deceiving others. That is what the world calls a romance.
OSCAR WILDEThe truth is rarely pure and never simple.
OSCAR WILDEI don’t want to be at the mercy of my emotions. I want to use them, to enjoy them, and to dominate them.
OSCAR WILDEI am too fond of reading books to care to write them.
OSCAR WILDEEvery saint has a past, and every sinner has a future.
OSCAR WILDEIf you are not long, I will wait for you all my life.
OSCAR WILDEI may not agree with you, but I will defend to the death your right to make an ass of yourself.
OSCAR WILDEThe mystery of love is greater than the mystery of death.
OSCAR WILDEThe world is changed because you are made of ivory and gold. The curves of your lips rewrite history.
OSCAR WILDEQuotation is a serviceable substitute for wit.
OSCAR WILDE