Oscar Wilde Quotations | Page 8

We have really everything in common with America nowadays, except, of course, language.

I don't want to earn my living, I want to live.

Circumstances should never alter principles!

A flower blossoms for its own joy.

She is absolutely inadmissible into society. Many a woman has a past, but I am told that she has at least a dozen, and that they all fit.

Misfortunes one can endure - they come from outside, they are accidents. But to suffer for one's own faults - Ah! there is the sting of life.

Misfortunes one can endure -- they come from outside, they are accidents. But to suffer for one's own faults -- Ah! there is the sting of life.

This morning I took out a comma and this afternoon I put it back in again.

How marriage ruins a man! It is as demoralizing as cigarettes, and far more expensive.

Death and vulgarity are the only two facts in the nineteenth century that one cannot explain away.