Quotes from Oscar Wilde

I am a born antinomian. I am one of those who are made for exceptions, not for laws. But while I see that there is nothing wrong in what one does, I see that there is something wrong in what one becomes.

I am jealous of everything whose beauty does not die.

you will always love, and you will always be loved

It is always a silly thing to give advice, but to give good advice is absolutely fatal.

When a golden girl can win Prayer from out the lips of sin, When the barren almond bears, And a little child gives away its tears, Then shall all the house be still And peace come to Canterville.

If I could get back my youth, I'd do anything in the world except get up early, take exercise or be respectable.

sorrow...is a wound that bleeds when any hand but that of love touches it

A man cannot be too careful in the choice of his enemies.

You love the beauty that you can see and touch and handle, the beauty that you can destroy, and do destroy, but of the unseen beauty of life, of the unseen beauty of a higher life, you know nothing. You lost life's secret.

How clever are you, my dear! You never mean a single word you say!

Actual life was chaos, but there was something terribly logical in the imagination. It was the imagination that set remorse to dog the feet of sin. It was the imagination that made each crime bear its misshapen brood. In the common world of fact the wicked were not punished, nor the good rewarded. Success was given to the strong, failure thrust upon the weak. That was all.

The aim of Love is to love: no more, and no less.