Oscar Wilde

Love is fed by the imagination, by which we become wiser than we know, better than we feel, nobler than we are: by which we can see life as a whole, by which and by which alone we can understand others in their real and their ideal relation. Only what is fine, and finely conceived can feed love. But anything will feed hate.

I made your sorrow mine also, that you might have help in bearing it.

Any preoccupation with ideas of what is right or wrong in conduct shows an arrested intellectual development.

I'm too old to know everything

The happiness of a married man depends on the people he has not married.

He wants to enslave you.' 'I shudder at the thought of being free.

I am jealous of everything whose beauty does not die.

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

Christ did not die to save people, but to teach people how to save each other. This is, I have no doubt, a grave heresy, but it is also a fact.

The unread is always better than the unreadable.

The weather is entrancing, but in my heart there is no sun.

They've promised that dreams can come true - but forgot to mention that nightmares are dreams, too.

I asked the question for the best reason possible, for the only reason, indeed, that excuses anyone for asking any question - simple curiosity.

I've now realised for the first time in my life the vital Importance of Being Earnest.

I am happy in my prison of passion

Well, I can't eat muffins in an agitated manner. The butter would probably get on my cuffs.

The world has become sad because a puppet was once melancholy. The nihilist, that strange martyr who has no faith, who goes to the stake without enthusiasm, and dies for what he does not believe in, is a purely literary product. He was invented by Turgenev, and completed by Dostoevsky. Robespierre came out of the pages of Rousseau as surely as the People's Palace rose out debris of a novel. Literature always anticipates life. It does not copy it, but moulds it to its purpose.

Well, I know, of course, how important it is not to keep a business engagement, if one wants to retain any sense of the beauty of life.

Sarcasm is the lowest form of wit.

I was wrong. God's law is only Love.

I did not think I should be ever loved: do you indeed Love me so much as now you say you do? Ask of the sea-bird if it loves the sea, Ask of the roses if they love the rain, Ask of the little lark, that will not sing Till day break, if it loves to see the day: And yet, these are but empty images, Mere shadows of my love, which is a fire So great that all the waters of the main Can not avail to quench it.