It takes great deal of courage to see the world in all its tainted glory, and still to love it. - Oscar Wilde
Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead. - Oscar Wilde
Laughter is not at all a bad beginning for a friendship, and it is far the best ending for one. - Oscar Wilde
Literature must rest always on a principle, and temporal considerations are no principle at all. For, to the poet, all times and places are one; the stuff he deals with is eternal and eternally the same: no theme is inept, no past or present preferable. - Oscar Wilde
Live! Live the wonderful life that is in you! Let nothing be lost upon you. Be always searching for new sensations. Be afraid of nothing. - Oscar Wilde
London is too full of fogs and serious people. Whether the fogs produce the serious people, or whether the serious people produce the fogs, I don't know. - Oscar Wilde
Man is a rational animal who always loses his temper when he is called upon to act in accordance with the dictates of reason. - Oscar Wilde
Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth. - Oscar Wilde
Men marry because they are tired; women, because they are curious; both are disappointed. - Oscar Wilde
Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation. - Oscar Wilde
Most people die of a sort of creeping common sense, and discover when it is too late that the only things one never regrets are one's mistakes. - Oscar Wilde
No better way is there to learn to love Nature than to understand Art. It dignifies every flower of the field. And, the boy who sees the thing of beauty which a bird on the wing becomes when transferred to wood or canvas will probably not throw the customary stone. - Oscar Wilde
No great artist ever sees things as they really are. If he did, he would cease to be an artist. - Oscar Wilde
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