3,435 Quotes by Oscar Wilde

The moaning wind went wandering round / The weeping prison-wall: / Till like a wheel of turning steel / We felt the minutes crawl: / O moaning wind! what had we done / To have such a seneschal?

I am afraid that women appreciate cruelty, downright cruelty, more than anything else. They have wonderfully primitive instincts. We have emancipated them, but they remain slaves looking for their masters, all the same. They love being dominated.

I saw some designs on your vases done by someone who, I should say, had only five minutes to catch a train... the institution of pottery should not be a refuge for people who cannot draw nor asylum for the artistically afflicted.

Marriage is the one subject on which woman agree and all me disagree.

To regret one's own experience is to arrest one's own development. To deny one's own experience is to put a lie into the lips of one's own lie. It is no less than a denial of the soul.

Have we not lips to kiss with, hearts to love and eyes to see!

Paradoxically though it may seem, it is nonetheless true that life imitates art far more than art imitates life.

With the abolition of private property, marriage in its present form must disappear.

To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people just exist.