3,435 Quotes by Oscar Wilde

Men always want to be a woman's first love. That is their clumsy vanity. We, women, have a more subtle instinct about things. What we like is to be a man's last romance.

There is only one real tragedy in a woman's life. The fact that the past is always lover, and her future invariably her husband.

When Narcissus died the pool of his pleasure changed from a cup of sweet waters into a cup of salt tears, and the Oreads came weeping through the woodland that they might sing to the pool and give it comfort.

The mere mechanical technique of acting can be taught, but the spirit that is to give life to lifeless forms must be born in a man. No dramatic college can teach its pupils to think or to feel.

You can only be yourself everybody else is taken.

No matter who broke your heart, or how long it takes to heal, you'll never get through it without your friends.

Men always want to be a woman's first love women like to be a man's last romance.

I am always thinking about myself, and I expect everybody else to do the same. That is what is called sympathy.

A new Hedonism that was to recreate life and to save it from that harsh uncomely puritanism that is having, in our own day, its curious revival. It was to have its service of the intellect, certainly, yet it was never to accept any theory or system that would involve the sacrifice of any mode of passionate experience.