I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying.
Oscar WildeKeep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead.
Love, Sun, GardenOscar WildeIf you are not too long, I will wait here for you all my life.
Oscar WildeA red rose is not selfish because it wants to be a red rose. It would be horribly selfish if it wanted all the other flowers in the garden to be both red and roses.
Flowers & RosesOscar Wilde, The Soul of Man under SocialismKeep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead.
Love, GardenOscar WildeNever love anyone who treats you like you're ordinary.
Oscar WildeChildren begin by loving their parents; as they grow older they judge them; sometimes they forgive them.
Children & Childhood, ParentsOscar Wilde in The Picture of Dorian GrayWhat seems to us as bitter trials are often blessings in disguise.
Oscar WildeIf you want to tell people the truth, make them laugh, otherwise they'll kill you.
Laughing & Smile, Truth, CriticismOscar WildeTo regret one's own experience is to arrest one's own development.
ExperienceOscar Wilde (Irish Author)Laughter is not at all a bad beginning for a friendship, and by far the best ending for one.
Laughing & Smile, FriendshipOscar Wilde in The Picture of Dorian GrayThe only thing worse than being talked about, is not being talked about.
Gossip & Rumors, PopularityOscar WildeEducation is an admirable thing. But it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.
Learning, EducationOscar WildeIn this world there are only two tragedies. One is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it.
Ambition, DesireOscar WildeMan is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.
Humanity, MaskenOscar WildeNo great artist ever sees things as they really are. If he did, he would cease to be an artist.
ArtOscar WildeOne can survive everything nowadays except death.
Oscar Wilde, OscarianaDeath must be so beautiful. To lie in the soft brown earth, with the grasses waving above one's head, and listen to silence. To have no yesterday, and no tomorrow. To forget time, to forgive life, to be at peace.
DeathOscar Wilde - The Canterville GhostArt finds her own perfection within, and not outside of herself. She is not to be judged by any external standard of resemblance. She is a veil, rather than a mirror.
ArtOscar WildeI am not at all cynical, I have merely got experience, which, however, is very much the same thing.
ExperienceOscar WildePeople are either charming or tedious.
Oscar WildeTo live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.
LifeOscar Wilde (1854-1900, irish author)Men always want to be a woman's first love. What women like is to be a man's last romance.
Love, Men & WomenOscar WildeThe public have an insatiable curiosity to know everything, except what is worth knowing.
Humanity, Knowledge, CuriosityOscar WildeWhat is a cynic? A man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing.
Humanity, Money, ValuesOscar Wilde