“But then one regrets the loss even of one's worst habits. Perhaps one regrets them the most. They are such an essential part of one's personality.”— Oscar Wilde, amazon.com
“I think it's very healthy to spend time alone. You need to know how to be alone and not be defined by another person.”— Oscar Wilde, cmgww.com
“Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live, it is asking others to live as one wishes to live. And unselfishness is letting other people's lives alone, not interfering with them. Selfishness always aims at creating around it an absolute uniformity of type. Unselfishness recognizes infinite vari…”— Oscar Wilde, amazon.com
“He wanted to be where no one would know who he was. He wanted to escape from himself.”— Oscar Wilde, amazon.com
“I have grown to love secrecy. It seems to be the one thing that can make modern life mysterious or marvelous to us. The commonest thing is delightful if only one hides it.”— Oscar Wilde, amazon.com
“It takes great deal of courage to see the world in all its tainted glory, and still to love it.”— Oscar Wilde, amazon.com
“Whenever a man does a thoroughly stupid thing, it is always from the noblest motives.”— Oscar Wilde, amazon.com
“I hope you have not been leading a double life, pretending to be wicked and being good all the time. That would be hypocrisy.”— Oscar Wilde, amazon.com
“She is very clever, too clever for a woman. She lacks the indefinable charm of weakness.”— Oscar Wilde, amazon.com
“Always! That is a dreadful word. It makes me shudder when I hear it. Women are so fond of using it. They spoil every romance by trying to make it last forever. It is a meaningless word, too. The only difference between a caprice and a life-long passion is that the caprice lasts a little longer.”— Oscar Wilde, amazon.com