Oscar Wilde

Everything is dangerous, my dear fellow. If it wasn't so, life wouldn't be worth living.

London is too full of fogs and serious people. Whether the fogs produce the serious people, or whether the serious people produce the fogs, I don't know.

When one has never heard a man's name in the course of one's life, it speaks volumes for him; he must be quite respectable.

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

A truth ceases to be true when more than one person believes in it.

His morality is all sympathy, just what morality should be

Intellectual generalities are always interesting, but generalities in morals mean absolutely nothing.

Most people die of a sort of creeping common sense, and discover when it is too late that the only things one never regrets are one's mistakes.

The fatal errors of life are not due to man's being unreasonable: an unreasonable moment may be one's finest moment. They are due to man's being logical.

I think that God, in creating man, somewhat overestimated his ability.

We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.

To regret one’s own experiences is to arrest one’s own development. To deny one’s own experiences is to put a lie into the lips of one’s own life. It is no less than a denial of the soul.

The great poet is always a seer, seeing less with the eyes of the body than he does with the eyes of the mind.

Beauty is a form of Genius--is higher, indeed, than Genius, as it needs no explanation. It is one of the great facts of the world, like sunlight, or springtime, or the reflection in the dark waters of that silver shell we call the moon. It cannot be questioned. It has divine right of sovereignty. It makes princes of those who have it.

I was disappointed in Niagara - most people must be disappointed in Niagara. Every American bride is taken there, and the sight of the stupendous waterfall must be one of the earliest, if not the keenest, disappointments in American married life.

Romantic art deals with the exception and with the individual. Good people, belonging as they do to the normal, and so, commonplace type, are artistically uninteresting.

America is the noisiest country that ever existed. One is waked up in the morning, not by the singing of the nightingale, but by the steam whistle.

Talent borrows, genius steals!

My dear young lady, there was a great deal of truth; I dare say, in what you said, and you looked very pretty while you said it, which is much more important.

The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it. Resist it, and your soul grows sick with longing for the things it has forbidden to itself, with desire for what its monstrous laws have made monstrous and unlawful.

It is very vulgar to talk about one's own business. Only people like stockbrokers do that, and then only at dinner parties.