The basis of optimism is sheer terror.
OSCAR WILDEThe basis of optimism is sheer terror.
OSCAR WILDEBe yourself; everyone else is already taken.
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 WILDEI don’t want to go to heaven. None of my friends are there.
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 WILDEI have the simplest tastes. I am always satisfied with the best.
OSCAR WILDEIf you are not long, I will wait for you all my life.
OSCAR WILDEEducation is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.
OSCAR WILDEThe mystery of love is greater than the mystery of death.
OSCAR WILDEEvery woman is a rebel.
OSCAR WILDEAn idea that is not dangerous is unworthy of being called an idea at all.
OSCAR WILDETo lose one parent, may be regarded as a misfortune; to lose both looks like carelessness.
OSCAR WILDEThe suspense is terrible. I hope it will last.
OSCAR WILDEI am so clever that sometimes I don’t understand a single word of what I am saying.
OSCAR WILDEI am not young enough to know everything.
OSCAR WILDEAnyone who lives within their means suffers from a lack of imagination.
OSCAR WILDE