Quotes from Oscar Wilde

I like Wagner's music better than anybody's. It is so loud that one can talk the whole time without other people hearing what one says.

I hope you hair curls naturally, does it? Yes, darling, with a little help from others.

Nothing should be out of the reach of hope. Life is a hope.

The proper basis for marriage is a mutual misunderstanding.

And, after all, what is a fashion? From the artistic point of view, it is usually a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months.

Life cheats us with shadows. We ask it for pleasure. It gives it to us with bitterness and disappointment in its train.

The world seemed to me fine because you were in it, and goodness more real because you lived.

It is a sad truth, but we have lost the faculty of giving lovely names to things.

When our eyes met, I felt that I was growing pale. A curious sensation of terror came over me. I knew that I had come face to face with some one 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.

Literature always anticipates life. It doesn't copy it but moulds it to it's purpose.

It has been said that the great events of the world take place in the brain. It is in the brain, and the brain only, that the great sins of the world take place also.

I cannot choose one hundred best books because I have only written five