- Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the
flowers are dead. The consciousness of loving and being loved brings warmth
and richness to life that nothing else can bring.
- Quoted by Alvin Redman in The Epigrams of Oscar Wilde (1952)
- He is really not so ugly after all, provided, of course, that one shuts one’s
eyes, and does not look at him.
- “The Birthday of the Infanta”, The House of Pomegranates (1892)
- The old believe everything; the middle-aged suspect everything; the young
know everything.
- Phrases and Philosophies for the Use of the Young (1894)