Quotes from Oscar Wilde

Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live. It is asking other people to live as one wishes to live.

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

Ordinary people waited till life disclosed to them its secrets, but to the few, to the elect, the mysteries of life were revealed before the veil was drawn away. Sometimes this was the effect of art, and chiefly of the art of literature, which dealt immediately with the passions and the intellect.

Everyone may not be good, but there's always something good in everyone. Never judge anyone shortly because every saint has a past and every sinner has a future.

There is nothing in the world like the devotion of a married woman. It is a thing no married man knows anything about.

I have got to make everything that has happened to me good for me

The very essence of romance is uncertainty. If ever I get married, I'll certainly try to forget the fact.

She has form, he said to himself, as he walked away through the grove - that cannot be denied to her; but has she got feeling? I am afraid not. In fact, she is like most artists; she is all style, without any sincerity. She would not sacrifice herself for others. She thinks merely of music, and everybody knows that arts are selfish. Still, it must be admitted that she has some beautiful notes in her voice. What a pity it is that they do not mean anything, or do any practical good.

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

I never came across anyone in whom the moral sense was dominant who was not heartless, cruel, vindictive, log-stupid, and entirely lacking in the smallest sense of humanity. Moral people, as they are termed, are simple beasts.

The world is made by the singer for the dreamer.

Time is jealous of you, and wars against your lilies and your roses.