Oscar Wilde Quotes - Page 5

Nowadays most people die of a sort of creeping common sense, and discover when it is too late that the only things one never regrets are one's mistakes.

The public have an insatiable curiosity to know everything, except what is worth knowing.

But then one regrets the loss even of one's worst habits. Perhaps one regrets them the most. They are such an essential part of one's personality.

With age comes wisdom, but sometimes age comes alone.

It is a very sad thing that nowadays there is so little useless information.

In examinations the foolish ask questions that the wise cannot answer.

Die Welt ist von Narren geschaffen, damit Weise in ihr Leben.

Everything is about sex, except sex

A flower blossoms for its own joy.

The only horrible thing in the world is ennui.

Pleasure is the only thing one should live for, nothing ages like happiness.

The proper basis for marriage is mutual misunderstanding. The happiness of a married man depends on the people he has not married. One should always be in love - that's the reason one should never marry.

My dear fellow, it isn't easy to be anything nowadays. There's such a lot of beastly competition about.

When 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.

She is all the great heroines of the world in one. She is more than an individual. I love her, and I must make her love me. I want to make Romeo jealous. I want the dead lovers of the world to hear our laughter, and grow sad. I want a breath of our passion to stir dust into consciousness, to wake their ashes into pain.

You are more to me than any of them has any idea; you are the atmosphere of beauty through which I see life; you are the incarnation of all lovely things...I think of you day and night. ~ Letter to Lord Alfred 'Bosie' Douglas

Romantic literature is in effect imaginative lying.

I had buried my romance in a bed of asphodel.

He is fairer than the morning star, and whiter than the moon. For his body I would give my soul, and for his love I would surrender heaven.

The curves of your lips rewrite history.