Quotes by Oscar Wilde

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 else can bring.

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

Anyone who lives within their means suffers from a lack of imagination.

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

Life is not complex. We are complex. Life is simple, and the simple thing is the right thing.

Imagination is a quality that was given to man compensate him from whats not. The sense of humor was given to console him from what is.

Life is one fool thing after another whereas love is two fool things after each other.

I think God, in creating man, somewhat overestimated his ability.

I have the simplest tastes. I am always satisfied with the best.

I have nothing to declare except my genius.

No good deed goes unpunished.

If you dont get everything you want, think of the things you dont get that you dont want.

I made art a philosophy, and philosophy an art: I altered the minds of men, and the colour of things: I awoke the imagination of my century so that it created myth and legend around me: I summed up all things in a phrase, all existence in an epigram: whatever I touched I made beautiful

Nichts Interessantes ist jemals richtig.

With age comes wisdom, but sometimes age comes alone.

It is a very sad thing that nowadays there is so little useless information.

Die Welt ist von Narren geschaffen, damit Weise in ihr Leben.

A flower blossoms for its own joy.

Pleasure is the only thing one should live for, nothing ages like happiness.

The only horrible thing in the world is ennui.