58 Quotes About Wilde

A little sincerity is a dangerous thing, and a great deal of it is absolutely fatal.

My dear fellow, the way you flirt with Gwendolen is perfectly disgraceful. It is almost as disgraceful as the way Gwendolen flirts with you.

Olvidar un hecho, es modificar el pasado.

To be really mediæval one should have no body. To be really modern one should have no soul. To be really Greek one should have no clothes.

It is only when one has lost all things, that one knows that one possesses it

Any fool can make history, but it takes a genius to write it.

Querido Hiram - replicó mistress Otis - ¿qué podemos hacer con una mujer que se desmaya?Se lo descontaremos de su salario - respondió el Ministro-. Verás como no vuelve a desmayarse.

...telling doesn't help me - it helps you. As Wilde says, It is the confession, not the priest, that gives absolution...

Those who find beautiful meanings in beautiful things are the cultivated. For these there is hope.