Quotes from Oscar Wilde

Give women the right opportunities and they are capable of everything.

Men always want to be a woman's first love, -women want to be a man's last romance.

Women are never disarmed by compliments. Men always are.

There is no such thing as romance in our day women have become too brilliant nothing spoils a romance so much as a sense of humor in the woman.

I have nothing to declare except my genius.

With freedom, flowers, books, and the moon, who could not be perfectly happy?

Death must be so beautiful. To lie in the soft brown earth, with the grasses waving above one's head, and listen to silence. To have no yesterday, and no tomorrow. To forget time, to forgive life, to be at peace.

I don't want to be at the mercy of my emotions. I want to use them, to enjoy them, and to dominate them.

Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.

I can resist anything except temptation.

A cynic is a man who knows the price of everything, and the value of nothing.

All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does, and that is his.

The only way to get rid of temptation is to yield to it.

Behind every exquisite thing that existed, there was something tragic.

I am too fond of reading books to care to write them.

To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.

It is absurd to divide people into good and bad. People are either charming or tedious.

Children begin by loving their parents; as they grow older they judge them; sometimes they forgive them.

Quotation is a serviceable substitute for wit.

Who, being loved, is poor?

Crying is for plain women. Pretty women go shopping.

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

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.

We are each our own devil, and we make this world our hell.