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- ... Nature, whose sweet rains fall of just and unjust alike, will have clefts in the rocks where I may hide, and secret valleys in whose silence I may weep undetected. She will hang the night with stars so that I may walk abroad in the darkness without stumbling, and send the wind over my footprints so that none may track me to my hurt: she will cleanse me in great waters, and with bitter herbs make me whole.
- Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900), "De Profundis"
- Success is a science; if you have the conditions, you get the result.
- Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900)
- People are very fond of giving away what they need most themselves. It is what I call the depth of generosity.
- Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900), The Picture of Dorian Grey
- Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.
- Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900)
- Man can believe the impossible, but man can never believe the improbable.
- Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900)
- We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.
- Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900)
- Work is the curse of the drinking class.
- Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900)
- I have nothing to declare but my genius.
- Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900), As he passed through customs
- And the wild regrets, and the bloody sweats,
None knew so well as I:
For he who lives more lives than one
More deaths than one must die. - Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900), The Ballad of Reading Gaol
- I have the simplest of tastes. I am always satisfied with the best.
- Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900)
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