Quotes from Oscar Wilde

Then there was a man who said, 'I never knew what real happiness was until I got married; by then it was too late'

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.

Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes.

Art is individualism, and individualism is a disturbing and disintegrating force.

There is always something infinitely mean about other people's tragedies.

If one tells the truth, one is sure, sooner or later, to be found out.

A thing is not necessarily true because a man dies for it.

Youth is the only thing worth having.

My dear fellow, the truth isn't quite the sort of thing one tells to a nice, sweet, refined girl. What extraordinary ideas you have about the way to behave to a woman!

The truth about the life of a man is not what he does, but the legend which he creates around himself.

And, by the way, one of the most delightful things I find in America is meeting a people without prejudice -- everywhere open to the truth.

Every thing to be true must become a religion.

The truth is rarely pure and never simple. Modern life would be very tedious if it were either, and modern literature a complete impossibility.

The pure and simple truth is, the truth is never pure and simple.

The truth is rarely pure and never simple.

The only difference between the saint and the sinner is that every saint has a past, and every sinner has a future.

You will always be fond of me. I represent to you all the sins you have never had the courage to commit.

Charity creates a multitude of sins.

It is love, and not German philosophy, that is the true explanation of the world, whatever may be the explanation of the next.

I love hearing my relations abused. It is the only thing that makes me put up with them at all.

How long could you love a woman who didn't love you, Cecil? A woman who didn't love me? Oh, all my life!

Any place you love is the world to you.

All love is true, but not all truth ... is love?

The function of the artist is to invent, not to chronicle.