Oscar Wilde Quotes

Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead.

~ Oscar Wilde

Experience is the name everyone gives to their mistakes

~ Oscar Wilde

Never love anyone who treats you like you're ordinary.

~ Oscar Wilde

The heart was made to be broken.

~ Oscar Wilde

The very essence of romance is uncertainty.

~ Oscar Wilde

To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.

~ Oscar Wilde

Yet each man kills the thing he lovesBy each let this be heardSome do it with a bitter lookSome with a flattering wordThe coward does it with a kissThe brave man with a sword

~ Oscar Wilde

One should always be in love. That's the reason one should never marry.

~ Oscar Wilde

A man can be happy with any woman as long as he does not love her.

~ Oscar Wilde

Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead. The consciousness of loving and being loved brings a warmth and a richness to life that nothing else can bring.

~ Oscar Wilde

I really don't see anything romantic in proposing. It is very romantic to be in love. But there is nothing romantic about a definite proposal. Why, one may be accepted. One usually is, I believe. Then the excitement is all over. The very essence of romance is uncertainty. If ever I get married, I'll certainly try to forget the fact.

~ Oscar Wilde

It takes great courage to see the world in all its tainted glory, and still to love it. And even more courage to see it in the one you love

~ Oscar Wilde

You have killed my love. You used to stir my imagination. Now you don't even stir my curiosity. You simply produce no effect. I loved you because you were marvelous, because you had genius and intellect, because you realized the dreams of great poets and gave shape and substance to the shadows of art. You have thrown it all away. You are shallow and stupid

~ Oscar Wilde

My life-my whole life- take it, and do with it what you will. I love you-love you as I have never loved any living thing. From the moment I met you I loved you, loved you blindly, adoringly,madly!You didn't know it then-you know it now.

~ Oscar Wilde

When I like people immensely I never tell their names to anyone. It is like surrendering a part of them. I have grown to love secrecy.

~ Oscar Wilde

Anyone who lives within their means suffers from a lack of imagination.

~ Oscar Wilde

Paradoxically though it may seem, it is none the less true that life imitates art far more than art imitates life.

~ Oscar Wilde

I won't tell you that the world matters nothing, or the world's voice, or the voice of society. They matter a good deal. They matter far too much. But there are moments when one has to choose between living one's own life, fully, entirely, completely—or dragging out some false, shallow, degrading existence that the world in its hypocrisy demands. You have that moment now. Choose!

~ Oscar Wilde

The only artists I have ever known who are personally delightful are bad artists. Good artists exist simply in what they make, and consequently are perfectly uninteresting in what they are. A great poet, a really great poet, is the most unpoetical of all creatures. But inferior poets are absolutely fascinating. The worse their rhymes are, the more picturesque they look. The mere fact of having published a book of second-rate sonnets makes a man quite irresistible. He lives the poetry that he cannot write. The others write the poetry that they dare not realize.

~ Oscar Wilde

To regret one’s own experiences is to arrest one’s own development. To deny one’s own experiences is to put a lie into the lips of one’s own life. It is no less than a denial of the soul.

~ Oscar Wilde

I never approve, or disapprove, of anything now. It is an absurd attitude to take towards life.

~ Oscar Wilde

The true mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible.

~ Oscar Wilde

Be yourself, everyone else is already taken.

~ Oscar Wilde

We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.

~ Oscar Wilde

A man who does not think for himself does not think at all.

~ Oscar Wilde

But we never get back our youth… The pulse of joy that beats in us at twenty becomes sluggish. Our limbs fail, our senses rot. We degenerate into hideous puppets, haunted by the memory of the passions of which we were too much afraid, and the exquisite temptations that we had not the courage to yield to.

~ Oscar Wilde

What fire does not destroy, it hardens

~ Oscar Wilde

Life is one fool thing after another whereas love is two fool things after each other.

~ Oscar Wilde

I think God, in creating man, somewhat overestimated his ability.

~ Oscar Wilde

I never travel without my diary. One should always have something sensational to read in the train.

~ Oscar Wilde

I have the simplest tastes. I am always satisfied with the best.

~ Oscar Wilde

There is only one thing in the world worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about.

~ Oscar Wilde

To lose one parent may be regarded as a misfortune, to lose both looks like carelessness.

~ Oscar Wilde

I like men who have a future and women who have a past.

~ Oscar Wilde

Humanity takes itself too seriously. It is the world's original sin. If the cave-man had known how to laugh, History would have been different.

~ Oscar Wilde

I always pass on good advice. It is the only thing to do with it. It is never of any use to oneself.

~ Oscar Wilde

My own business always bores me to death, I prefer other people's.

~ Oscar Wilde

It is perfectly monstrous,' he said, at last, 'the way people go about nowadays saying things against one behind one's back that are absolutely and entirely true.

~ Oscar Wilde

In matters of grave importance, style, not sincerity, is the vital thing.

~ Oscar Wilde

The only way a woman can ever reform a man is by boring him so completely that he loses all possible interest in life.

~ Oscar Wilde