Oscar Wilde Secret Quotations

The reason we are so pleased to find other people's secrets is that it distracts public attention from our own.

We spend our days, each one of us, in looking for the secret of life. Well, the secret of life is in Art.

Life! Life! Don't let us go to life for our fulfilment or our experience. Life makes us pay too high a price for its wares, and we purchase the meanest of its secrets at a cost that is monstrous and infinite.

You are young. No hungry generations tread you down. The past does not mock you with the ruins of a beauty the secret of whose creation you have lost

A passion for pleasure is the secret of remaining young.

The secret of remaining young is never to have an emotion that is unbecoming.

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.

Each time that one loves is the only time one has ever loved. Difference of object does not alter singleness of passion. It merely intensifies it. We can have 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

An inordinate passion for pleasure is the secret of remaining young

All charming people, I fancy, are spoiled. It is the secret of their attraction.

You are young. No hungry generations tread you down.... The past does not mock you with the ruins of a beauty the secret of whose creation you have lost...

The secret of life is to appreciate the pleasure of being terribly deceived

The secret of life is never to have an emotion that is unbecoming.

You can have your secret as long as I have your heart[.]

I feel that if I kept it secret it might grow in my mind (as poisonous things grow in the dark) and take its place with the other terrible thoughts that gnaw me

I have been right, Basil, haven’t I, to take my love out of poetry, and to find my wife in Shakespeare’s plays? Lips that Shakespeare taught to speak have whispered their secret in my ear. I have had the arms of Rosalind around me, and kissed Juliet on the mouth.

She had a passion for secrecy, but she herself was merely a Sphinx without a secret.

The terror of society, which is the basis of morals, the terror of God, which is the secret of religion-these are the two things that govern us.

But whether I become a believer or remain an agnostic, my belief or disbelief must derive its source from within, not from without. I, myself, must create its symbols. The transcendental is that which produces its own form. I will never discover its secret if I do not find it in my own heart; if I do not possess it already I shall never be able to acquire it.

She behaves as if she was beautiful. Most American women do. It is the secret of their charm.

It is the confession, not the priest, that gives us absolution.

The secret to life is to enjoy the pleasure of being terribly, terribly deceived.

The secret of life is in art.

Sphinxes without secrets.

I forgot that every little action of the common day makes or unmakes character, and that therefore what one has done in the secret chamber one has some day to cry aloud on the house-tops.