It is not wise to find symbols in everything that one sees. It makes life too full of terrors. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“I never intend to grow old. The soul is born old but grows young. That is the comedy of life.” — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“As for a spoiled life, no life is spoiled but one whose growth is arrested.” — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“It is sometimes said that the tragedy of an artist's life is that he cannot realize his ideal.” — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Life is the art of being well deceived, and to succeed, it must be habitual and uninterrupted. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“I did not want any external influence in my life. You know how independent I am by nature. I have always been… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
The soul is born old but grows young. That is the comedy of life. And the body is born young and grows… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“They were evidently people on a low, material plane of existence, and quite incapable of appreciating the symbolic value of sensuous phenomena.” — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“When I was young I thought money was the most important thing in life, now that I'm old - I know it… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Life cheats us with shadows. We ask it for pleasure. It gives it to us with bitterness and disappointment in its train. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
We should treat all the trivial things of life seriously, and all the serious things of life with sincere and studied triviality. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“To-night, for the first time in my life, I saw through the hollowness, the sham, the silliness of the empty pageant in… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“Harry spends his days in saying what is incredible, and his evenings in doing what is improbable. Just the sort of life… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Newspapers. . . give us the bald, sordid, disgusting facts of life. They chronicle, with degrading avidity, the sins of the second-rate,… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
You have always told me it was Ernest. I have introduced you to every one as Ernest. You answer to the name… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“We can have in life but one great experience at best, and the secret of life is to reproduce that experience as… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“You seem to forget that I am married, and the one charm of marriage is that it makes a life of deception… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“people who only love once in their lives are really shallow people. What they call their loyalty, and their fidelity, I call… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“I won't tell you that the world matters nothing, or the world's voice, or the voice of society. They matter a good… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
In spite of the roaring of the young lions at the Union, and the screaming of the rabbits in the home of… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Lord Darlington (LD): I think life too complex a thing to be settled by these hard and fast rules. Lady Windemere (LW):… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“I believe that if one man were to live out his life fully and completely, were to give form to every feeling,… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
The cities of America are inexpressibly tedious. The Bostonians take their learning too sadly; culture with them is an accomplishment rather than… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“Art never expresses anything but itself. It has an independent life, just as thought has, and develops purely on its own lines… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“But the Duke will not die, he is too sinful. Oh, can it be There is some immortality in sin, Which virtue… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“Rid of the world’s injustice, and his pain, He rests at last beneath God’s veil of blue: Taken from life when life… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“Dorian, Dorian," she cried, "before I knew you, acting was the one reality of my life. It was only in the theatre… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“Beauty is one of the great facts of the world, like sunlight,or springtime, or the reflection in dark waters of that silver… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“The worship of the senses has often, and with much justice, been decried, men feeling a natural instinct of terror about passions… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
The only one you need in your life is that person who shows you he needs you in his. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Well, one must be serious about something, if one wants to have any amusement in life. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
What a pity that in life we only get our lessons when they are of no use to us. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Life is not complex. We are complex. Life is simple, and the simple thing is the right thing. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
The books that the world calls immoral are the books that show the world its own shame. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share
Bachelors should be heavily taxed. It is not fair that some men should be happier than others — Oscar Wilde Copy Share
“Basil my dear boy puts everything that is charming in him into his work. The consequence is that he has nothing left for life… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share
I don't at all like knowing what people say of me behind my back. It makes me far too conceited. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share
“If these elements of beauty are real, the whole thing simply appeals to our sense of dramatic effect. Suddenly we find that we are… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share
“Those who find beautiful meanings in beautiful things are the cultivated. For these there is hope.” — Oscar Wilde Copy Share
Men always want to be a womans first love. Women have a more subtle instinct: What they like is to be a mans last… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share
Why is it that at a bachelor's establishment the servants invariably drink the champagne. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share
Moderation is a fatal thing. Enough is as bad as a meal. More than enough is as good as a feast. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share
Beauty is the only thing that time cannot harm. Philosophies fall away like sand, creeds follow one another, but what is beautiful is a… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share
