The Best Oskar Oskar Wilde Quotes

A passion for pleasure is the secret of remaining young.

Truth is independent of facts always.

All trials are trials for one's life.

Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead.

The heart contains passion but the imagination alone contains poetry.

Love does not traffic in a marketplace, nor use a huckster's scales. Its joy, like the joy of the intellect, is to feel itself alive. The aim of love is to love: no more, and no less.

Seriousness is the only refuge of the shallow.

Society often forgives the criminal; it never forgives the dreamer.

You don’t love someone for their looks, or their clothes, or for their fancy car, but because they sing a song only you can hear.

You have a wonderful personality. Develop it. Be yourself. Don't imagine that your perfection lies in accumulating or possessing external things. Your affection is inside of you. If only you could realise that, you would not want to be rich. Ordinary riches can be stolen from a man. Real riches cannot. In the treasury-house of your soul, there are infinitely precious things, that may not be taken from you. And so, try to so shape your life that external things will not harm you.

Sarcasm is the lowest form of wit.

I have nothing to declare except my genius.

The moment you think you understand a great work of art, it's dead for you.

All art is quite useless.

How can a woman be expected to be happy with a man who insists on treating her as if she were a perfectly normal human being.

Nothing can cure the soul but the senses, just as nothing can cure the senses but the soul.

What is a cynic?. A man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing.

The proper basis for marriage is a mutual misunderstanding.

No great artist ever sees things as they really are. If he did, he would cease to be an artist.

The difference between literature and journalism is that journalism is unreadable and literature is not read.