Quotes from Oscar Wilde

Difference of object does not alter singleness of passion. It merely intensifies it. We can have in life but one great experience at best, and the secret of life is to reproduce that experience as often as possible.

No crime is vulgar, but all vulgarity is crime".

She was free in her prison on passion

I rely on you to misrepresent me.

I don't at all like knowing what people say of me behind my back.  It makes me far too conceited. lord

Better to take pleasure in a rose than to put its root under a microscope.

But he never fell into the error of arresting his intellectual development by any formal acceptance of creed or system, or of mistaking, for a house in which to live, an inn that is but suitable for the sojourn of the night, or for a few hours of a night in which there are no stars and the moon is in travail.

The middle classes air their moral prejudices over their gross dinner-tables, and whisper about what they call the profligacies of their betters in order to try and pretend that they are in smart society and on intimate terms with the people they slander.

If Nature had been comfortable, mankind would never have invented architecture.

To be popular, one must be a mediocrity.

Oh! I killed Bunbury this afternoon... I mean poor Bunbury died this afternoon. What did he die of? Bunbury? Oh, he was exploded!

We are never more true to ourselves than when we are inconsistent.

The Lizards were extremely philosophical by nature, and often sat thinking for hours and hours together

Pero me es imposible no detestar a mi familia. Imagino que se debe a que nadie soporta a las personas que tienen sus mismos defectos.

Every single human being should be the fulfilment of a prophecy.

JACK: Yes, but said yourself that a severe chill was not hereditary. ALGERNON: It usen't to be, I know - but I daresay it is now. Science is always making wonderful improvements in things.

He was always late on principle, his principle being that punctuality is the thief of time.

Wer nicht auf seine Weise denkt, denkt überhaupt nicht.

El dolor es una herida que sangra en cuanto la roza cualquier mano que no sea la del amor, y que sangra, aunque ya sin sufrir cuando esta la toca.

When I am in trouble, eating is the only thing that consoles me. 

The only horrible thing in the world is ennui

What a pity that in life we only get our lessons when they are of no use to us.

We have chains, though no eye beholds them; and are slaves, though men call us free.

What would you say, Harry, if I told you that I had murdered Basil? said the younger man. He watched him intently after he had spoken.