Oscar Wilde

Beauty has as many meanings as man has moods. Beauty is the symbol of symbols. Beauty reveals everything, because it expresses nothing. When it shows us itself, it shows us the whole fiery-coloured world.

Oscar Wilde

Beauty is the only thing that time cannot harm. Philosophies fall away like sand, and creeds follow one another like the withered leaves of Autumn; but what is beautiful is a joy for all seasons and a possession for all eternity.

Oscar Wilde

Behind every exquisite thing that existed, there was something tragic.

Oscar Wilde

Being natural is simply a pose, and the most irritating pose I know.

Oscar Wilde

Believe me, no civilized man ever regrets a pleasure, and no uncivilized man ever knows what a pleasure is.

Oscar Wilde

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

Oscar Wilde

Bigamy is having one husband or wife too many. Monogamy is the same.

Oscar Wilde

Books are never finished, They are merely abandoned.

Oscar Wilde

But beauty, real beauty, ends where an intellectual expression begins.

Oscar Wilde

But then one regrets the loss even of one’s worst habits. Perhaps one regrets them the most. They are such an essential part of one’s personality.

Oscar Wilde