Oscar Wilde Modern Life Quotations

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.

the costume of the nineteenth century is detestable. It is so sombre, so depressing. Sin is the only real colour-element left in modern life.

To elope is cowardly; it is running away from danger; and danger has become so rare in modern life.

Sin is the only real colour element left in modern life.