The basis of optimism is sheer terror.
OSCAR WILDEThe basis of optimism is sheer terror.
OSCAR WILDETo define is to limit.
OSCAR WILDEEvery portrait that is painted with feeling is a portrait of the artist, not of the sitter.
OSCAR WILDEIt takes great deal of courage to see the world in all its tainted glory, and still to love it.
OSCAR WILDEThe books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame.
OSCAR WILDEI am not young enough to know everything.
OSCAR WILDETo live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.
OSCAR WILDEEverything in the world is about sex except sex. Sex is about power.
OSCAR WILDEA bore is someone who deprives you of solitude without providing you with company.
OSCAR WILDEArt is the only serious thing in the world. And the artist is the only person who is never serious.
OSCAR WILDEI can resist anything except temptation.
OSCAR WILDEMen always want to be a woman’s first love – women like to be a man’s last romance.
OSCAR WILDEHear no evil, speak no evil, and you won’t be invited to cocktail parties.
OSCAR WILDEI may not agree with you, but I will defend to the death your right to make an ass of yourself.
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 WILDEI think God, in creating man, somewhat overestimated his ability.
OSCAR WILDE