3,435 Quotes by Oscar Wilde

To awaken gratitude in the ungrateful were as vain as to try to wake the dead by cries.

“Never marry at all, Dorian. Men marry because they are tired, women, because they are curious: both are disappointed.”

The method by which the fool arrives at his folly was as dear to him as the ultimate wisdom of the wise.

Women represent the triumph of matter over mind, just as men represent the triumph of mind over matter.

He who is in a state of rebellion cannot receive grace, to use the phrase of which the Church is so fond — so rightly fond, I dare say — for in life as in art the mood of rebellion closes up the channels of the soul, and shouts out the airs of heaven.

“Manners before morals!”

For the life of man is a sorrow / And death is a relief from pain, / For love only lasts till tomorrow / And life without love is vain.

Some cause happiness wherever they go. Others whenever they go.

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