Behind every exquisite thing that existed, there was something tragic.
OSCAR WILDEBehind every exquisite thing that existed, there was something tragic.
OSCAR WILDEThe very essence of romance is uncertainty.
OSCAR WILDEI have nothing to declare except my genius.
OSCAR WILDEThe books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame.
OSCAR WILDEWomen are meant to be loved, not to be understood.
OSCAR WILDENothing can cure the soul but the senses, just as nothing can cure the senses but the soul.
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 WILDEAfter a good dinner one can forgive anybody, even one’s own relations.
OSCAR WILDEAn idea that is not dangerous is unworthy of being called an idea at all.
OSCAR WILDETo get back my youth I would do anything in the world, except take exercise, get up early, or be respectable.
OSCAR WILDEThe nicest feeling in the world is to do a good deed anonymously-and have somebody find out.
OSCAR WILDENever love anyone who treats you like you’re ordinary.
OSCAR WILDEI am too fond of reading books to care to write them.
OSCAR WILDENowadays most people die of a sort of creeping common sense, and discover when it is too late that the only things one never regrets are one’s mistakes.
OSCAR WILDENo good deed goes unpunished.
OSCAR WILDESome cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go.
OSCAR WILDE