“The only difference between the saint and the sinner is that every saint has a past, and every sinner has a future.” – A Woman Of No Importance
“With freedom, books, flowers, and the moon, who could not be happy?” – De Profundis and Other Prison Writings
“Death must be so beautiful. To lie in the soft brown earth, with the grasses waving above one’s head, and listen to silence. To have no yesterday, and no tomorrow. To forget time, to forgive life, to be at peace. You can help me, you can open for me the portals of death’s house, for love is always with you, and love is stronger than death is.” – The Canterville Ghost
“I knew that I had come face to face with someone whose mere personality was so fascinating that, if I allowed it to do so, it would absorb my whole nature, my whole soul, my very art itself.” – The Picture of Dorian Gray
“Everything in the world is about sex except sex. Sex is about power.” – Unknown (possibly apocryphal as the source is uncertain)
“You will always be fond of me. I represent to you all the sins you never had the courage to commit.” – The Picture of Dorian Gray
“To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.” – The Soul of Man Under Socialism
“You used to stir my imagination. Now you don’t even stir my curiosity.” – The Picture of Dorian Gray
“Consistency is the last refuge of the unimaginative.” – Unknown
“I never approve or disapprove of anything now. It is an absurd attitude to take towards life. We are not sent into the world to air our moral prejudices.” – The Picture of Dorian Gray
“A dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight, and his punishment is that he sees the dawn before the rest of the world.” – The Critic as Artist
“The world is changed because you are made of ivory and gold. The curves of your lips rewrite history.” – The Picture of Dorian Gray
Who allowed Oscar Wilde to hold so much talent? So much power. How dare he touch my soul with his words so nonchalantly?
