People seldom tell the truths that are worth telling. We ought to choose our truths as carefully as we choose our lies and to select our virtues with as much thought as we bestow upon the selection of our enemies.
Oscar WildeWithout order nothing can exist-without chaos nothing can evolve. Nowadays people know the price of everything and the value of nothing.
Oscar WildeYou 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 and intellect, because you realized the dreams of great poets and gave shape and substance to the shadows of art. You have thrown it all away. You are shallow and stupid
Oscar WildeTo get back my youth I would do anything in the world, except take exercise, get up early, or be respectable.
Oscar WildeThe reason we are so pleased to find other people's secrets is that it distracts public attention from our own.
Oscar WildeIt's tragic how few people ever 'possess their souls' before they die. 'Nothing is more rare in any man', says Emerson, 'than an act of his own.' It is quite true. Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their life is a mimicry, their passions a quotation.
Oscar Wilde