Quotes from Oscar Wilde

I love scandals about other people, but scandals about myself don't interest me. They have not got the charm of novelty.

There is one thing worse than an absolutely loveless marriage: a marriage in which there is love, but on one side only.

I have grown to love secrecy. It seems to be the one thing that can make modern life mysterious or marvelous to us. The commonest thing is delightful if only one hides it.

Even before I met you I was far from indifferent to you.

It is sweet to dance to violins When love and life are fair: To dance to flutes, to dance to lutes Is delicate and rare: But it is not sweet with nimble feet To dance upon the air!

If one could only teach the English how to talk, and the Irish how to listen, society here would be quite civilized.

If there was less sympathy in the world, there would be less trouble in the world.

Mr. Henry James writes fiction as if it were a painful duty.

There should be a law that no ordinary newspaper should be allowed to write about art. The harm they do by their foolish and random writing it would be impossible to overestimate - not to the artist, but to the public, blinding them to all but harming the artist not at all.

It's an odd thing, but anyone who disappears is said to be seen in San Francisco. It must be a delightful city and possess all the attractions of the next world

Travel ennobles the spirit and does away with our prejudices.

I am very glad I have travelled. Travel improves the mind wonderfully, and does away with all one's prejudices.

Never trust a woman who wears mauve, whatever her age may be, or a woman over thirty-five who is fond of pink ribbons.

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

Gwendolen, it is a terrible thing for a man to find out suddenly that all his life he has been speaking nothing but the truth. Can you forgive me?

She wore far too much rouge last night and not quite enough clothes. That is always a sign of despair in a woman.

Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.

Love! What is love? It's nothing. It's just a word. It doesn't exist. Only pleasure is important.

A burnt child loves the fire.

All sins, except a sin against itself, Love should forgive. All lives, save loveless lives, true Love should pardon.

It is not the perfect, but the imperfect, who have need of love.

A mutual misunderstanding.

Each time that one loves is the only time one has ever loved.

True love is just like regular love, but with more truth.