Oscar Wilde

“This morning I took out a comma and this afternoon I put it back again.”

“I've put my genius into my life; I've only put my talent into my works.”

“Yet each man kills the thing he loves By each let this be heard Some do it with a bitter look Some with a flattering word The coward does it with a kiss The brave man with a sword”

“One should always be in love. That's the reason one should never marry.”

“Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead. The consciousness of loving and being loved brings a warmth and a richness to life that nothing...”

“A man can be happy with any woman as long as he does not love her.”

“I really don't see anything romantic in proposing. It is very romantic to be in love. But there is nothing romantic about a definite proposal. Why, one may be accepted. One usually is, I bel...”

“It takes great courage to see the world in all its tainted glory, and still to love it. And even more courage to see it in the one you love”

“Hearts Live By Being Wounded”

“You have killed my love. You used to stir my imagination. Now you don't even stir my curiosity. You simply produce no effect. I loved you because you were marvelous, because you had genius a...”

“A kiss may ruin a human life”

“My life-my whole life- take it, and do with it what you will. I love you-love you as I have never loved any living thing. From the moment I met you I loved you, loved you blindly, adoringly,...”

“When I like people immensely I never tell their names to anyone. It is like surrendering a part of them. I have grown to love secrecy.”

“Paradoxically though it may seem, it is none the less true that life imitates art far more than art imitates life.”

“The aim of life is self-development. To realize one's nature perfectly - that is what each of us is here for.”

“I won't tell you that the world matters nothing, or the world's voice, or the voice of society. They matter a good deal. They matter far too much. But there are moments when one has to choos...”

“The only artists I have ever known who are personally delightful are bad artists. Good artists exist simply in what they make, and consequently are perfectly uninteresting in what they are....”

“To regret one’s own experiences is to arrest one’s own development. To deny one’s own experiences is to put a lie into the lips of one’s own life. It is no less than a denial of the soul.”

“The true mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible.”

“If you want to be a grocer, or a general, or a politician, or a judge, you will invariably become it; that is your punishment. If you never know what you want to be, if you live what some mi...”