Oscar Wilde Quotes

"Even you are not rich enough, Sir Robert, to buy back your past. No man is." ~ An Ideal Husband by Oscar Wilde To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance. ~ An Ideal Husband by Oscar Wilde When the gods wish to punish us they answer our prayers. ~ An Ideal Husband by Oscar Wilde "My own business always bores me to death. I prefer other people's." ~ Lady Windermere's Fan by Oscar Wilde "Ideals are dangerous things. Realities are better. They wound, but they're better." ~ Lady Windermere's Fan by Oscar Wilde I like talking to a brick wall - it's the only thing in the world that never contradicts me! ~ Lady Windermere's Fan by Oscar Wilde In this world there are only two tragedies. One is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it. ~ Lady Windermere's Fan by Oscar Wilde There are moments when one has to choose between living one's own life, fully, entirely, completely - or dragging out some false, shallow, degrading existence that the world in its hypocrisy demands. ~ Lady Windermere's Fan by Oscar Wilde Life is far too important a thing ever to talk seriously about. ~ Lady Windermere's Fan by Oscar Wilde We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars. ~ Lady Windermere's Fan by Oscar Wilde