Quotes from Oscar Wilde

I am not a Pessimist. Indeed I am not sure that I quite know what Pessimism really means. All I do know is that life cannot be understood without much charity, it cannot be lived without much charity. It is love, and not German philosophy, that is the true explanation of this world, whatever may be the explanation of the next.

La única diferencia que hay entre un capricho y una pasión eterna es que el capricho dura un poco más de tiempo.

Champing his gilded oats, the Hippogriff will stand in our stalls, and over our heads will float the Blue Bird singing of beautiful and impossible things, of things that are lovely and that never happen, of things that are not and that should be.

the people who love only once in their lives are really the shallow people. What they call their loyalty, and their fidelity, I call either the lethargy of custom or their lack of imagination. Faithfulness is to the emotional life what consistency is to the life of the intellect - simply a confession of failure. a

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.' 'Even when one has been wounded by it, Harry?' asked the duchess after a pause. 'Especially when one has been wounded by it,' answered Lord Henry.

The drawback of stealing a thing, is that one never knows how wonderful the thing that one steals is.

Faithfulness! I must analyze it some day. The passion for property is in it. There are many things that we would throw away if we were not afraid that others might pick them up.

Lord AUGUSTUS:(looking around) Time to educate yourself, I suppose. DUMBY: No, time to forget all I have learned. That is much more important.

The ages live in history through their anachronisms.

had set himself to the serious study of the great aristocratic art of doing absolutely nothing.

people who only love once in their lives are really shallow people. What they call their loyalty, and their fidelity, I call either the lethargy of custom or the lack of imagination. Faithlessness is to the emotional life what consistency is to the intellectual life,—simply a confession of failure.

You came to me to learn the Pleasure of Life and the Pleasure of Art. Perhaps I am chosen to teach you something much more wonderful, the meaning of Sorrow and its beauty.

You will always be loved, and you will always be in love with love.

I knew that I had come face to face with someone whose mere personality was so fascinating that, if I allowed it to do so, it would absorb my whole nature, my whole soul, my very art itself.

Of course married life is merely a habit, a bad habit. But then one regrets the loss even of one's worse habits.

I love scandals about other people, but scandals about myself do not interest me. The have not got the charm of novelty.

She was usually in love with somebody, and, as her passion was never returned, she had kept all her illusions.

It often happened that when we thought we were experimenting on others we were really experimenting on ourselves.

The passion for property is in it. There are many things that we would throw away if we were not afraid others might pick them up.

I never change. MRS. CHEVELEY: (elevating her eyebrows) Then life has taught you nothing? LADY CHILTERN: It has taught me that a person who has once been guilty of a dishonest and dishonorable action may be guilty of it a second time, and should be shunned. MRS. CHEVELEY: Whould that rule apply to everyone? LADY CHILTERN: Yes, to everyone, without exception. MRS. CHEVELEY: Then I am sorry for you, Gertrude, very sorry for you.

The loves and sorrows that are great are destroyed by their own plentitude.

Laughter is not at all a bad beginning for a friendship, and it is far the best ending for one, said the young lord, plucking another daisy.

there is no doubt that genius lasts longer than beauty. That accounts for the fact that we all take such pains to over-educate ourselves. In the wild struggle for existence, we want to have something that endures, and so we fill our minds with rubbish and facts, in the silly hope of keeping our place.

Laughter is not at all a bad beginning for a friendship, and it is far the best ending for one," said the young lord, plucking another daisy. Hallward shook his head. "You don't understand what friendship is, Harry," he murmured -"or what enmity is, for that matter. You like everyone; that is to say, you are indifferent to everyone.