Oscar Wilde Quotes

Nowadays people know the price of everything and the value of nothing.

To live, is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.

“The world is changed because you are made of ivory and gold. The curves of your lips rewrite history.”

Wisdom comes with winters.

Never love anyone who treats you like you’re ordinary.

The true mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible.

When you assume, you make an ass out of u and me

Those who are faithful know only the pleasures of love: it is the faithless who know love's tragedies.

I don’t want to be at the mercy of my emotions. I want to use them, to enjoy them, and to dominate them.

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

An inordinate passion for pleasure is the secret of remaining young.

You will always be fond of me. I represent to you all the sins you never had the courage to commit.

“I believe that if one man were to live out his life fully and completely, were to give form to every feeling, expression to every thought, reality to every dream—I believe that the world would gain such a fresh impulse of joy that we would forget all the maladies of mediaevalism, and return to the Hellenic ideal—to something finer, richer, than the Hellenic ideal, it may be.

The truth is rarely pure and never simple.

“Toda arte é, ao mesmo tempo, superfície e símbolo. Os que buscam sob a superfício fazem-no por seu próprio risco. Os que procuram decifrar o símbolo correm também seu próprio risco.”

“Podemos perdoar a um homem por haver feito uma coisa útil, contando que não a admire. A única desculpa de haver feito uma coisa inútil é admirá-la intensamente.”

“Os que encontram significações feias em coisas belas são corruptos sem ser encantadores. Isto é um defeito.
Os que encontram belas significações em coisas belas são cultos. Para estes há esperança.
Existem os eleitos, para os quais as coisas belas significam unicamente Beleza.”

Never love anybody who treats you like you’re ordinary.

I can believe anything, provided that it is quite incredible.

To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.