Oscar Wilde

Those who are faithful know only the trivial side of love; it is the faithless who know love’s tragedies.

Oscar Wilde

To be natural is such a very difficult pose to keep up.

Oscar Wilde

To expect the unexpected shows a thoroughly modern intellect.

Oscar Wilde

To get back my youth I would do anything in the world, except take exercise, get up early, or be respectable.

Oscar Wilde

To give an accurate description of what has never occurred is not merely the proper occupation of the historian, but the inalienable privilege of any man of parts and culture.

Oscar Wilde

To have become a deeper man is the privilege of those who have suffered.

Oscar Wilde

To recommend thrift to the poor is both grotesque and insulting. It is like advising a man who is starving to eat less.

Oscar Wilde

Ultimately the bond of all companionship, whether in marriage or in friendship, is conversation, and conversation must have a common basis, and between two people of widely different culture the only common basis possible is the lowest level.

Oscar Wilde

Vile deeds like poison weeds bloom well in prison air, it is only what is good in man, that wastes and withers there.

Oscar Wilde

We are each our own devil, and we make this world our hell.

Oscar Wilde