3,435 Quotes by Oscar Wilde

She lives the poetry she cannot write.

My life-my whole life- take it, and do with it what you will. I love you-love you as I have never loved any living thing. From the moment I met you I loved you, loved you blindly, adoringly,madly!You didn't know it then-you know it now.

It is not he who is revealed by the painter; it is rather the painter, who on the coloured canvas, reveals himself.

When I like people immensely I never tell their names to anyone. It is like surrendering a part of them. I have grown to love secrecy.

»Sind nicht die Armen und die Reichen Brüder?« fragte der junge König.»Ja,« antwortete der Mann, »und der Name des reichen Bruders ist Kain.«

There are two ways to dislike poetry: One is to dislike it; the other is to read Pope.

Why can't these American women stay in their own country? They are always telling us that it is the paradise for women.It is. That is the reason why, like Eve, they are so excessively anxious to get out of it.

Le public est extraordinairement tolérant. Il pardonne tout, sauf le génie.

All bad poetry springs from genuine feeling. To be natural is to be obvious, and to be obvious is to be inartistic.