"I like men who have a future and women who have a past.
More Oscar Wilde quotes
"The only difference between a caprice and a lifelong passion is that the caprice lasts a little longer.
"The heart was made to be broken.
"Are ALL men bad?Oh, all of them, my dear, all of them, without any exception. And they never grow any better. Men become old, but they never become go...
"I have been right, Basil, haven’t I, to take my love out of poetry, and to find my wife in Shakespeare’s plays? Lips that Shakespeare taught to speak ...
"Who, being loved, is poor?
"A sentimentalist is simply one who desires to have the luxury of an emotion without paying for it.
"Women love us for our defects. If we have enough of them, they will forgive us everything, even our gigantic intellects.
"You came to me to learn the Pleasure of Life and the Pleasure of Art. Perhaps I am chosen to teach you something much more wonderful, the meaning of S...
"Men marry because they are tired; women, because they are curious; both are disappointed.
"Men become old but they never become good.
"it is a marvel that those red-roseleaf lips of yours should be made no less for the madness of music and song than for the madness of kissing.
"A kiss may ruin a human life
"Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead. The consciousness of loving and being loved brings a wa...
"Plain women are always jealous of their husbands. Beautiful women never are. They are always so occupied with being jealous of other women's husbands.