Quotes by Oscar Wilde

Children begin by loving their parents. After a time they judge them. Rarely if ever do they forgive them.

The suspense is terrible. I hope it will last.

Always forgive your enemies nothing annoys them so much.

Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion enmity worship love but no friendship.

Pleasure is the only thing to live for. Nothing ages like happiness.

We are all in the gutter but some of us are looking at the stars.

There is only one thing in the world worse than being talked about and that is not being talked about.

In this world there are only two tragedies. One is not getting what one wants and the other is getting it.

When a love comes to an end weaklings cry efficient ones instantly find another love and the wise already have one in reserve.

All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. Thats his.

There is luxury in self-reproach. When we blame ourselves we feel that no one else has the right to blame us.

I hope you have not been leading a double life pretending to be wicked and being really good all the time. That would be hypocrisy.

Life is not governed by will or intention. Life is a question of nerves and fibers and slowly built-up cells in which thought hides itself and passion has its dreams.

To love oneself is the beginning of a life-long romance.

For he who lives more lives than one more deaths than one must die.

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

Men know life too early women know life too late.

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

Marriage is the one subject on which all women agree and all men disagree.

Men marry because they are tired women because they are curious: both are disappointed.