Quotes from Oscar Wilde
If you don't get everything you want, think of the things you don't get that you don't want.
- Oscar Wilde
I drink to separate my body from my soul.
- Oscar Wilde
Bigamy is having one wife too many. Monogamy is the same.
- Oscar Wilde
Women defend themselves by attacking, just as they attack by sudden and strange surrenders.
- Oscar Wilde
I am happy in my prison of passion
- Oscar Wilde
The only way a woman can ever reform a man is by boring him so completely that he loses all possible interest in life.
- Oscar Wilde
One's real life is so often the life that one does not lead.
- Oscar Wilde
Where there is sorrow, there is holy ground.
- Oscar Wilde
Actions are the first tragedy in life, words are the second. Words are perhaps the worst. Words are merciless. . .
- Oscar Wilde
Oh! it is absurd to have a hard-and-fast rule about what one should read and what one shouldn't. More than half of modern culture depends on what one shouldn't read.
- Oscar Wilde
And what sort of lives do these people, who pose as being moral, lead themselves? My dear fellow, you forget that we are in the native land of the hypocrite.
- Oscar Wilde
The secret of remaining young is never to have an emotion that is unbecoming.
- Oscar Wilde