Experience is merely the name men gave to their mistakes.
OSCAR WILDEExperience is merely the name men gave to their mistakes.
OSCAR WILDEAn idea that is not dangerous is unworthy of being called an idea at all.
OSCAR WILDEThe truth is rarely pure and never simple.
OSCAR WILDETo get back my youth I would do anything in the world, except take exercise, get up early, or be respectable.
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 WILDEChildren begin by loving their parents; as they grow older they judge them; sometimes they forgive them.
OSCAR WILDELive! Live the wonderful life that is in you! Let nothing be lost upon you. Be always searching for new sensations. Be afraid of nothing.
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 WILDEA bore is someone who deprives you of solitude without providing you with company.
OSCAR WILDETo love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.
OSCAR WILDEThere is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written, or badly written. That is all.
OSCAR WILDEEvery portrait that is painted with feeling is a portrait of the artist, not of the sitter.
OSCAR WILDEFashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months.
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 WILDETo live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.
OSCAR WILDEI am too fond of reading books to care to write them.
OSCAR WILDE