“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
“Paradox though it may seem - and paradoxes are always dangerous things - it is none the less true that Life imitates… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“It is pure unadulterated country life. They get up early because they have so much to do, and go to bed early,… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
I don't play accurately--any one can play accurately--but I play with wonderful expression. As far as the piano is concerned, sentiment is… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live; it is asking others to live as one wishes to life. Selfishness always… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
One's days were too brief to take the burden of another's errors on one's shoulders. Each man lived his own life and… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
To stake all one's life on a single moment, to risk everything on one throw, whether the stake be power or pleasure,… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“That is one of the secrets of life - to cure the soul by means of the senses, and the senses by… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
I never approve, or disapprove, of anything now. It is an absurd attitude to take towards life. We are not sent into… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
We quaff the cup of life with eager haste without draining it, instead of which it only overflows the brim - objects… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
I have grown tired of the articulate utterances of men and things. The Mystical in Art, the Mystical in Life, the Mystical… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“When I like people immensely I never tell their names to anyone. It is like surrendering a part of them. I have… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“Better for him that each sin of his life had brought its sure, swift penalty along with it. There was purification in… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“It was his beauty that had ruined him, his beauty and the youth that he had prayed for. But for those two… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“In the wild struggle for existence, we want to have something that endures, and so we fill our minds with rubbish and… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
I think it is perfectly natural for any artist to admire intensely and love a young man. It is an incident in… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“Jack: “Gwendolen, wait here for me.” Gwendolen: “If you are not too long, I will wait here for you all my life.” — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
To shut one's eyes to half of life that one may live securely is as though one blinded oneself that one might… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“I remembered what you had said to me on that wonderful evening we first dined together, about the search for beauty being… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
The one charm about marriage is that it makes a life of deception absolutely necessary for both parties. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
It is through¦ Art and Art only that we can shield ourselves from the sordid perils of actual existence. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
The aim of life is self-development. To realize one's nature perfectly - that is what each of us is here for. — 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
“The only thing that sustains one through life is the consciousness of the immense inferiority of everybody else, and this is a… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
A man's very highest moment is, I have no doubt at all, when he kneels in the dust, and beats his breast,… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Faithfulness is to the emotional life what consistency is to the life of the intellect - simply a confession of failures. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Finding the meaning of life is easy. Simply get a dictionary, go to the 'L' section, and find the word 'life.' — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“Illness of any kind is hardly a thing to be encouraged in others. Health is the primary duty of life.” — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
I am sorry my life is so marred and maimed by extravagance. But I cannot live otherwise. I, at any rate, pay… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
There is something tragic about the enormous number of young men there are in England at the present moment who start life… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“was the living death of his own soul that troubled him. Basil had painted the portrait that had marred his” — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“Ah! I have talked quite enough for today," said Lord Henry, smiling. "All I want now is to look at life. You… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
All that I desire to point out is the general principle that life imitates art far more than art imitates life. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
The people who have adored me-- there have not been very many, but there have been some-- have always insisted on living… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
The American father is never seen in London. He passes his life entirely in Wall Street and communicates with his family once… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Would you like to know the great drama of my life? It is that I have put my genius into my life...I… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
I hope you have not been leading a double life, pretending to be wicked and being really good all the time. That… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
The supreme object of life is to live. Few people live. It is true life only to realize one's own perfection, to… — 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
