Quotes from Oscar Wilde
Lord Illingworth: The Book of Life begins with a man and a woman in a garden.Mrs. Allonby: It ends with Revelations.
- Oscar Wilde
A cigarette is the perfect type of a perfect pleasure. It is exquisite, and it leaves one unsatisfied. What more can one want?
- Oscar Wilde
What we have to do, what at any rate it is our duty to do, is to revive the old art of Lying.
- Oscar Wilde
One's real life is so often the life that one does not lead.
- Oscar Wilde
Men always want to be a woman's first love - women like to be a man's last romance.
- Oscar Wilde
There is only one thing in life worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about.
- Oscar Wilde
Pessimist: One who, when he has the choice of two evils, chooses both.
- Oscar Wilde
Action is the last resource of those who know not how to dream.
- Oscar Wilde
To have become a deeper man is the privilege of those who have suffered.
- Oscar Wilde
The youth of America is their oldest tradition. It has been going on now for three hundred years.
- Oscar Wilde
You are more to me than any of them has any idea; you are the atmosphere of beauty through which I see life; you are the incarnation of all lovely things...I think of you day and night. ~ Letter to Lord Alfred 'Bosie' Douglas
- Oscar Wilde
Hatred is blind, as well as love.
- Oscar Wilde