"A red rose is not selfish because..." - Quote by Oscar Wilde

“I always pass on good advice. It is the only thing to do with it. It is never of any use to oneself.”

“The one charm about the past is that it is the past. But women never know when the curtain has fallen.”

“I live constantly in the fear of not being misunderstood.”

“I have the feeling that he would rather see a good cause fail than succeed if he were not the head of it.”

“I like best the wine drunk at the cost of others.”

“If men as individuals surrender to the call of their elementary instincts, avoiding pain and seeking satisfaction only for their own selves, the result for them all taken together must be a state of insecurity, of fear, and of promiscuous misery.”

“I love Nature partly because she is not man, but a retreat from him. None of his institutions control or pervade her. There a different kind of right prevails. In her midst I can be glad with an entire gladness. If this world were all man, I could not stretch myself, I should lose all hope. He is constraint, she is freedom to me. He makes me wish for another world. She makes me content with this.”

“A cultivated man, wise to know and bold to perform, is the end to which nature works.”

“Wordsworth went to the Lakes, but he was never a lake poet. He found in stones the sermons he had already hidden there.”