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“I asked the question for the best reason possible, for the only reason, indeed, that excuses anyone for asking any question - simple curiosity.”

Oscar Wilde book The Picture of Dorian Gray

Source: The Picture of Dorian Gray

“From the moment I met you, your personality had the most extraordinary influence over me. I was dominated, soul brain and power.”

Oscar Wilde book The Picture of Dorian Gray

Source: The Picture of Dorian Gray

“Is insincerity such a terrible thing? I think not. It is merely a method by which we can multiply our personalities.”

Oscar Wilde book The Picture of Dorian Gray

Source: The Picture of Dorian Gray

“So with curious eyes and sick surmise
We watched him day by day,
And wondered if each one of us
Would end the self-same way,
For none can tell to what red Hell
His sightless soul may stray.”

Oscar Wilde

“To get back one's youth one has merely to repeat one's follies.”

Oscar Wilde

“I hope you hair curls naturally, does it?
Yes, darling, with a little help from others.”

Oscar Wilde The Importance of Being Earnest

Source: The Importance of Being Earnest

“Seriousness is the only refuge of the shallow.”

Oscar Wilde

“The proper basis for marriage is a mutual misunderstanding.”

Oscar Wilde book Lord Arthur Savile's Crime and Other Stories

Source: Lord Arthur Savile's Crime and Other Stories

“I am sick to death of cleverness. Everybody is clever nowadays. You can’t go anywhere without meeting clever people. The thing has become an absolute public nuisance. I wish to goodness we had a few fools left.”

Oscar Wilde The Importance of Being Earnest

Source: The Importance of Being Earnest

“The final revelation is that Lying, the telling of beautiful untrue things, is the proper aim of Art.”

Oscar Wilde book The Decay of Lying

The Decay of Lying (1889)

“Bad artists always admire each others work.”

Oscar Wilde

“Conscience makes egotists of us all.”

Oscar Wilde book The Picture of Dorian Gray

Source: The Picture of Dorian Gray

“For he who lives more lives than one
More deaths than one must die.”

Oscar Wilde book The Ballad of Reading Gaol

Pt. III, st. 22
The Ballad of Reading Gaol (1898)
Source: The Ballad of Reading Gaol and Other Poems

“Most people live for love and admiration. But it is by love and admiration that we should live.”

Oscar Wilde book De Profundis

Source: De Profundis

“Experience is a question of instinct about life.”

Oscar Wilde Lady Windermere's Fan

Source: Lady Windermere's Fan

“I'm too old to know everything”

Oscar Wilde

J. M. Barrie The Admirable Crichton, Act I (1903).
Misattributed
Variant: I'm not young enough to know everything.