Oscar Wilde's Wit and Wisdom: A Book of Quotations (Dover Thrift Editions: Speeches/Quotations)

Good taste is the excuse I’ve always given for leading such a bad life. The Importance of Being Earnest.

Women are meant to be loved, not to be understood. The Sphinx Without a Secret.

I love acting. It is so much more real than life. The Picture of Dorian Gray.

One’s real life is so often the life that one does not lead. In Conversation.

To become a spectator of one’s own life is to escape the suffering of life. The Picture of Dorian Gray.

We live in an age that reads too much to be wise, and thinks too much to be beautiful. The Picture of Dorian Gray.

We can have in life but one great experience at best, and the secret of life is to reproduce that experience as often as possible. The Picture of Dorian Gray.

The world has always laughed at its own tragedies, that being the only way in which it has been able to bear them. A Woman of No Importance.

Ethics, like natural selection, make existence possible. Aesthetics, like sexual selection, make life lovely and wonderful, fill it with new forms, and give it progress, and variety and change. The Critic as Artist.