Doe Quotes by Oscar Wilde

I am jealous of everything whose beauty does not die.

— Oscar Wilde

Travel ennobles the spirit and does away with our prejudices.

— Oscar Wilde

One does not see anything until one sees its beauty.

— Oscar Wilde

Ah, on what little things does happiness depend.

— Oscar Wilde

How does one cure the soul? Through the senses

— Oscar Wilde

Ones real life is often the life that one does not lead.

— Oscar Wilde

Just because a man has died for it, does not make it true.

— Oscar Wilde

What fire does not destroy, it hardens

— Oscar Wilde

The great poet is always a seer, seeing less with the eyes of the body than he does with the eyes of…

— Oscar Wilde

He is really not so ugly after all, provided, of course, that one shuts one's eyes, and does not look at him.

— Oscar Wilde

And once, or twice, to throw the dice is a gentlemanly game, But he does not win who plays with Sin in…

— Oscar Wilde

A man who moralizes is a hypocrite, and a woman who does so is invariably plain.

— Oscar Wilde

Poor? What does that matter? When poverty creeps in at the door, love flies in through the window.

— Oscar Wilde

I hope your hair curls naturally, does it?" "Yes, darling, with a little help from others.

— Oscar Wilde

A map of the world that does not include Utopia is not worth even glancing at, for it leaves out the one…

— Oscar Wilde

I have learned this: it is not what one does that is wrong, but what one becomes as a consequence of it.

— Oscar Wilde

Ah, on what little things does happiness depend! I have read all that the wise men have written, and all the secrets…

— Oscar Wilde

Ah! that quite does for me. I haven't a word to say... Too much care was taken with our education, I am…

— Oscar Wilde

I envy you going to Oxford: it is the most flower-like time of one's life. One sees the shadow of things in…

— Oscar Wilde

When a man does exactly what a woman expects him to do she doesn't think much of him. One should always do…

— Oscar Wilde

“There are works which wait, and which one does not understand for a long time; the reason is that they bring answers…

— Oscar Wilde

Suffering is one very long moment. We cannot divide it by seasons. We can only record its moods, and chronicle their return.…

— Oscar Wilde

You can't possibly ask me to go without having some dinner. It's absurd. I never go without my dinner. No one ever…

— Oscar Wilde

I don’t regret for a single moment having lived for pleasure. I did it to the full, as one should do everything…

— Oscar Wilde

Romance lives by repetition, and repetition converts an appetite into an art. Besides, each time that one loves is the only time…

— Oscar Wilde

There is no such thing as a good influence. Because to influence a person is to give him one's own soul. He…

— Oscar Wilde

But what is the good of friendship if one cannot say exactly what one means? Anybody can say charming things and try…

— Oscar Wilde

Yet each man kills the thing he loves, By each let this be heard, Some do it with a bitter look, Some…

— Oscar Wilde

For a year after that was done to me I wept every day at the same hour and for the same space…

— Oscar Wilde

Jack? . . . No, there is very little music in the name Jack, if any at all, indeed. It does not…

— Oscar Wilde

Love does not traffic in a marketplace, nor use a huckster's scales. Its joy, like the joy of the intellect, is to…

— Oscar Wilde

Prosperity, pleasure and success, may be rough of grain and common in fibre, but sorrow is the most sensitive of all created…

— Oscar Wilde

There is nothing that stirs in the whole world of thought to which sorrow does not vibrate in terrible and exquisite pulsation.

— Oscar Wilde

I love scrapes. They are the only things that are never serious." "Oh, that's nonsense, Algy. You never talk anything but nonsense."…

— Oscar Wilde

As for omens, there is no such thing as an omen. Destiny does not send us heralds. She is too wise or…

— Oscar Wilde

Any map of the world that does not include Utopia is not even worth glancing at.

— Oscar Wilde

You are young. No hungry generations tread you down. The past does not mock you with the ruins of a beauty the…

— Oscar Wilde

I am very glad I have travelled. Travel improves the mind wonderfully, and does away with all one's prejudices.

— Oscar Wilde

The truth about the life of a man is not what he does, but the legend which he creates around himself.

— Oscar Wilde

I hope you hair curls naturally, does it? Yes, darling, with a little help from others.

— Oscar Wilde