3,435 Quotes by Oscar Wilde

Everything in the world is about sex except sex. Sex is about power.

I always pass on good advice. It is the only thing to do with it. It is never of any use to oneself.

One knows so well the popular idea of health: the English country gentleman galloping after a fox - the unspeakable in full pursuit of the unbeatable.

Paradoxically though it may seem, it is none the less true that life imitates art far more than art imitates life.

One should always be in love. That's the reason one should never marry.

A man can be happy with any woman as long as he does not love her.

Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead. The consciousness of loving and being loved brings a warmth and a richness to life that nothing else can bring.

In matters of grave importance, style, not sincerity, is the vital thing.

Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love, but no friendship.