There is nothing aesthetically pleasing about this page, and I cannot guarantee that there isn't mistakes, but I think you'll find some pretty interesting quotations. I find Wilde was funny, and while most times quite pessimistic, he'd add a little twist of optimism that strikes me the right way. So enjoy, and maybe someday I will actually make this aesthetically pleasing...
We are punished for our refusals
Nothing remains then but the recollection of a pleasure, or the luxury of a regret. The only way to get rid of temptation is to yield to it. Resist it, and your soul grows sick with longing for the things it has forbidden to itself, with desire for what its monstrous laws have made monstrous and unlawful.
She behaves as if she was beautiful. Most american women do. It is the secret of their charm.
Behind every exquisite thing that existed, there was something tragic
To get back one's youth, one merely have to repeat one's follies.
All that I desire to point out is the general principle that Life imitates Art far more than Art imitates Life.
But the bravest man amoung us is afraid of himself.
Nowadays most people die of a sort of creeping common sense, and discover when it is too late that the only things one never regrets are one's mistakes.
punctuality is the theif of time
Nowadays people know the price of everything and the value of nothing
There are many things that we would throw away if we were not afraid that others might pick them up.
He lives the poetry that he cannot write. The others write the poetry that they dare not realize.
Whenever a man does a throughly stupid thing, it is always from the noblest of motives.
There is always something ridculous about the emotions of people whom one has ceased to love.
there is a luxury in self-reproach. When we blame ourselves, we feel that no one else has the right to blame us.
there is a fatality about good resolutions - that they are always made too late.
the one charm of the past is that it is the past.
Once in boyish mockery of Narcissus, he had kissed, or feigned to kiss, those painted lips that now smiled so cruely at him.
You find me consoled, and you are furious. How like a sympathetic person!
I only knew that I had seen perfection face to face, and that the world had become wonderful to my eyes - too wonderful, perhaps, for in such mad worships there is peril, the peril of losing them, no less than the peril of keeping them...
would there ever be some one who would fill him with a strange idolatry?
perhaps one should never put one's worship into words
there seemed to him to be something so tragic in a friendship so coloured by romance
I am tired of myself tonight. I should like to be somebody else.
there was madness of pride in every word he uttered.
youth smiles without anyreason. it is one of it's chiefest charm
she is always flirting with the wind
Our Guildensterns play Hamlet for us, and our Hamlets have to jest like Prince Hal. The world is a stage, but the play is badly cast.
He had the rarest of all things, common sense.
Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing.
Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.
The pure and simple truth is rarely pure and never simple.
I am not young enough to know everything.
Bad artists always admire each others work.
Life is far too important to be taken seriously.
We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.
Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go.
True friends stab you in the front.
One of the many lessons that one learns in prison is, that things are what they are and will be what they will be.
Men always want to be a woman's first love - women like to be a man's last romance.
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