3,435 Quotes by Oscar Wilde

The sovereignty of Greece and Rome is not yet passed away, though the gods of one be dead and the eagles of the other tired.

The English have a miraculous power to change wine into water.

I think it's very healthy to spend time alone. You need to know how to be alone and not defined by another person.

Faithfulness is to the emotional life what consistency is to the life of the intellect—simply a confession of failure.

Those who are faithful know only the trivial side of love; it is the faithless who know love's tragedies.

He knew that he had tarnished himself, filled his mind with corruption, and given horror to his fancy; that he had been an evil influence to others, and had experienced a terrible joy in being so; and that, of the lives that had crossed his own, it had been the fairest and the most full of promise that he had brought to shame.

There is always something ridiculous about the passions of people whom one has ceased to love.

Pain is not the ultimate mode of perfection. It is merely provisional and a protest.

My heart is broken, hearts are made to be broken: that is why God sends sorrow into the world.