"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 ...
A flower blossoms for its own joy.
More Oscar Wilde quotes
"There is something terribly morbid in the modern sympathy with pain. One should sympathise with the colour, the beauty, the joy of life. The less said...
"No better way is there to learn to love Nature than to understand Art. It dignifies every flower of the field. And, the boy who sees the thing of beau...
"Those who find ugly meanings in beautiful things are corrupt without being charming. This is a fault.Those who find beautiful meanings in beautiful th...
"Pleasure is the only thing one should live for, nothing ages like happiness.
"Crying is for plain women. Pretty women go shopping.
"Beauty is the only thing that time cannot harm. Philosophies fall away like sand, creeds follow one another, but what is beautiful is a joy for all se...
"I choose my friends for their good looks, my acquaintances for their good characters, and my enemies for their good intellects.
"But neither milk-white rose nor red May bloom in prison air;The shard, the pebble, and the flint, Are what they give us there:For flowers have been kn...
"The public make use of the classics of a country as a means of checking the progress of Art. They degrade the classics into authorities.... A fresh mo...
"In this world there are only two tragedies. One is not getting what one wants and the other is getting it.
"Bosie has insisted on stopping here for sandwiches. He is quite like a narcissus -- so white and gold. I will come either Wednesday or Thursday night ...
"Moral grounds are always the last refuge of people who have no sense of beauty.
"Nobody is worthy to be loved. The fact that God loves man shows us that in the divine order of ideal things it is written that eternal love is to be g...
"I made art a philosophy, and philosophy an art: I altered the minds of men, and the colour of things: I awoke the imagination of my century so that it...