The very essence of romance is uncertainty.
OSCAR WILDEThe very essence of romance is uncertainty.
OSCAR WILDESome things are more precious because they don’t last long.
OSCAR WILDETo define is to limit.
OSCAR WILDEI never put off till tomorrow what I can possibly do – the day after.
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 WILDEThe public is wonderfully tolerant. It forgives everything except genius.
OSCAR WILDEMorality is simply the attitude we adopt towards people we personally dislike.
OSCAR WILDEMan is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.
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 WILDEOnly dull people are brilliant at breakfast.
OSCAR WILDEEvery saint has a past, and every sinner has a future.
OSCAR WILDEA thing is not necessarily true because a man dies for it.
OSCAR WILDEOne should never trust a woman who tells one her real age. A woman who would tell one that would tell one anything.
OSCAR WILDEThe mystery of love is greater than the mystery of death.
OSCAR WILDEAn idea that is not dangerous is unworthy of being called an idea at all.
OSCAR WILDEI think God, in creating man, somewhat overestimated his ability.
OSCAR WILDE