It takes great deal of courage to see the world in all its tainted glory, and still to love it.

I usually say what I really think. A great mistake nowadays. It makes one so liable to be misunderstood.

God grant me the serenity to accept that people are ignorant, the courage to uphold the law when I'm hostile, & the wisdom to realize that murder is illegal.

I was working on the proof of one of my poems all the morning, and took out a comma. In the afternoon I put it back again.

How sad it is!" murmured Dorian Gray with his eyes still fixed upon his own portrait. "How sad it is! I shall grow old, and horrible, and dreadful. But this picture will remain always young. It will never be older than this particular day of June… . If it were only the other way! If it were I who was to be always young, and the picture that was to grow old! For that—for that—I would give everything! Yes, there is nothing in the whole world I would not give! I would give my soul for that!

There is nothing so difficult to marry as a large nose.

The key to making up Oscar Wilde quotes is to add '~ Oscar Wilde' at the end.