Oscar Wilde Quotes

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

When you assume, you make an ass out of u and me

Those who are faithful know only the pleasures of love: it is the faithless who know love's tragedies.

I don’t want to be at the mercy of my emotions. I want to use them, to enjoy them, and to dominate them.

One should always be in love. That is the reason one should never marry.

An inordinate passion for pleasure is the secret of remaining young.

You will always be fond of me. I represent to you all the sins you never had the courage to commit.

“I believe that if one man were to live out his life fully and completely, were to give form to every feeling, expression to every thought, reality to every dream—I believe that the world would gain such a fresh impulse of joy that we would forget all the maladies of mediaevalism, and return to the Hellenic ideal—to something finer, richer, than the Hellenic ideal, it may be.

The truth is rarely pure and never simple.

“Toda arte é, ao mesmo tempo, superfície e símbolo. Os que buscam sob a superfício fazem-no por seu próprio risco. Os que procuram decifrar o símbolo correm também seu próprio risco.”

“Podemos perdoar a um homem por haver feito uma coisa útil, contando que não a admire. A única desculpa de haver feito uma coisa inútil é admirá-la intensamente.”

“Os que encontram significações feias em coisas belas são corruptos sem ser encantadores. Isto é um defeito.
Os que encontram belas significações em coisas belas são cultos. Para estes há esperança.
Existem os eleitos, para os quais as coisas belas significam unicamente Beleza.”

Never love anybody who treats you like you’re ordinary.

I can believe anything, provided that it is quite incredible.

To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.

"A cynic is a man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing"

Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.

Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.

He is really not so ugly after all, provided, of course, that one shuts one's eyes, and does not look at him.

Over the piano was printed a notice: Please do not shoot the pianist. He is doing his best.