Oscar Wilde

Of course I have played outdoor games. I once played dominoes in an open air cafe in Paris.

A red rose is not selfish because it wants to be a red rose. It would be horribly selfish if it wanted all the other flowers in the garden to be both red and roses.

I have nothing to declare but my genius.

Only my own genius.

Married men are horribly tedious when they are good husbands, and abominably conceited when they are not

History is merely gossip

As for a spoiled life, no life is spoiled but one whose growth is arrested.

The heart was made to be broken

God's eternal laws are kind-and break the heart of stone.

Nothing spoils a romance so much as a sense of humor in the woman - or the want of it in the man

The value of an idea has nothing to do with the success of the man who expresses it

I do not approve of anything which tampers with natural ignorance

Man can believe the impossible, but can never believe the improbable

Unless one is wealthy there is no use in being a charming fellow. Romance is the privilege of the rich, not the profession of the unemployed. The poor should be practical and prosaic. It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.

It is exactly because a man cannot do a thing that he is a proper judge of it

If you meet at dinner a man who has spent his life in educating himself you rise from the table richer, and conscious that a high ideal has for a moment touched and sanctified your days.

The secret of life is in art.

Work is a refuge of people who have nothing better to do.

To have the reputation of possessing the most perfect social tact, talk to every woman as if you loved her, and to every man as if he bored you.

To become a spectator of one's own life is to escape the suffering of life.

Talk to a woman as if you loved her, and to a man as if he bored you.

Skepticism is the beginning of Faith.

A man who moralizes is usually a hypocrite, and a woman who moralizes is invariably plain.

Life would be dull without them.

Life Life Don't let us go to life for our fulfillment or our experience. It is a thing narrowed by circumstances, incoherent in its utterance, and without that fine correspondence of form and spirit which is the only thing that can satisfy the artistic