--- title: "15 Exquisite Quotes By Oscar Wilde" description: "15 Exquisite quotes by Oscar Wilde. Plus more from Oscar Wilde and more Exquisite sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a34/oscar-wilde-16_exquisite_talking-to-him-was-like-playing-upon-an_2261931.jpg" --- > [“Talking to him was like playing upon an exquisite violin.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/oscar-wilde/talking-to-him-was-like-playing-upon-an-exquisite-violin/) [Oscar Wilde](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/oscar-wilde/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a34/oscar-wilde-16_exquisite_talking-to-him-was-like-playing-upon-an_2261931.jpg) > [Don't be afraid. There are exquisite things in store for you. This is merely the beginning.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/oscar-wilde/don-t-be-afraid-there-are-exquisite-things-in-store-for-you-this-is/) [Oscar Wilde](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/oscar-wilde/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/da0/oscar-wilde-16_beginning_don-t-be-afraid-there-are-exquisite-thin_2859835.jpg) > [Life, Lady Stutfield, is simply a mauvais quart d'heure made up of exquisite moments.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/oscar-wilde/life-lady-stutfield-is-simply-a-mauvais-quart-d-heure-made-up-of/) [Oscar Wilde](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/oscar-wilde/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/7aa/oscar-wilde-16_exquisite_life-lady-stutfield-is-simply-a-mauvais_61666.jpg) > [Behind every exquisite thing that existed, there was something tragic.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/oscar-wilde/behind-every-exquisite-thing-that-existed-there-was-something-tragic/) [Oscar Wilde](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/oscar-wilde/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/4c5/oscar-wilde-16_aesthetic_behind-every-exquisite-thing-that-existe_3122441.jpg) > [The exquisite art of idleness, one of the most important things that any University can teach.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/oscar-wilde/the-exquisite-art-of-idleness-one-of-the-most-important-things-that/) [Oscar Wilde](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/oscar-wilde/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/9c8/oscar-wilde-16_art_the-exquisite-art-of-idleness-one-of-the_1469998.jpg) > [When he takes the knife to the canvass the servants find him lying dead with a knife through is heart and "withered,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/oscar-wilde/when-he-takes-the-knife-to-the-canvass-the-servants-find-him-lying/) [Oscar Wilde](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/oscar-wilde/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ff3/oscar-wilde-16_exquisite_when-he-takes-the-knife-to-the-canvass-t_577400.jpg) > [In fact, the whole of Japan is a pure invention. There is no such country, there are no such people… The Japanese…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/oscar-wilde/in-fact-the-whole-of-japan-is-a-pure-invention-there-is-no-such/) [Oscar Wilde](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/oscar-wilde/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e22/oscar-wilde-16_art_in-fact-the-whole-of-japan-is-a-pure-inv_276392.jpg) > [I was dominated, soul, brain, and power by you. You became to me the visible incarnation of that unseen ideal whose memory…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/oscar-wilde/i-was-dominated-soul-brain-and-power-by-you-you-became-to-me-the/) [Oscar Wilde](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/oscar-wilde/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d14/oscar-wilde-16_art_i-was-dominated-soul-brain-and-power-by_1434434.jpg) > [There is nothing that stirs in the whole world of thought to which sorrow does not vibrate in terrible and exquisite pulsation.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/oscar-wilde/there-is-nothing-that-stirs-in-the-whole-world-of-thought-to-which/) [Oscar Wilde](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/oscar-wilde/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/84d/oscar-wilde-16_doe_there-is-nothing-that-stirs-in-the-whole_1282324.jpg) > [You must have a cigarette. A cigarette is the perfect type of a perfect pleasure. It is exquisite, and it leaves one…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/oscar-wilde/you-must-have-a-cigarette-a-cigarette-is-the-perfect-type-of-a/) [Oscar Wilde](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/oscar-wilde/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b14/oscar-wilde-16_cigarette_you-must-have-a-cigarette-a-cigarette-is_2142111.jpg) > [Palermo was lovely. The most beautifully situated town in the world - it dreams away its life in the Conca d'Oro, the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/oscar-wilde/palermo-was-lovely-the-most-beautifully-situated-town-in-the-world-it/) [Oscar Wilde](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/oscar-wilde/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/be7/oscar-wilde-16_dream_palermo-was-lovely-the-most-beautifully_1058422.jpg) > [But we never get back our youth… The pulse of joy that beats in us at twenty becomes sluggish. Our limbs fail,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/oscar-wilde/but-we-never-get-back-our-youth-the-pulse-of-joy-that-beats-in-us-at/) [Oscar Wilde](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/oscar-wilde/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/2ac/oscar-wilde-16_beats_but-we-never-get-back-our-youth-the-puls_1588097.jpg) > [I am not laughing, Dorian; at least I am not laughing at you. But you should not say the greatest romance of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/oscar-wilde/i-am-not-laughing-dorian-at-least-i-am-not-laughing-at-you-but-you/) [Oscar Wilde](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/oscar-wilde/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/6a7/oscar-wilde-16_class_i-am-not-laughing-dorian-at-least-i-am-n_870199.jpg) > [A beautiful woman risking everything for a mad passion. A few wild weeks of happiness cut short by a hideous, treacherous crime.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/oscar-wilde/a-beautiful-woman-risking-everything-for-a-mad-passion-a-few-wild/) [Oscar Wilde](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/oscar-wilde/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/2ff/oscar-wilde-16_agony_a-beautiful-woman-risking-everything-for_2435290.jpg) > [Prosperity, pleasure and success, may be rough of grain and common in fibre, but sorrow is the most sensitive of all created…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/oscar-wilde/prosperity-pleasure-and-success-may-be-rough-of-grain-and-common-in-2/) [Oscar Wilde](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/oscar-wilde/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/bb3/oscar-wilde-16_beaten_prosperity-pleasure-and-success-may-be-r_2177893.jpg) ## Other authors on Exquisite ## More by Oscar Wilde > [How else but through a broken heart may Lord Christ enter in?](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/oscar-wilde/how-else-but-through-a-broken-heart-may-lord-christ-enter-in/) [Oscar Wilde](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/oscar-wilde/) > [The books that the world calls immoral are the books that show the world its own shame.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/oscar-wilde/the-books-that-the-world-calls-immoral-are-the-books-that-show-the/) [Oscar Wilde](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/oscar-wilde/) > [Bachelors should be heavily taxed. It is not fair that some men should be happier than others](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/oscar-wilde/bachelors-should-be-heavily-taxed-it-is-not-fair-that-some-men-should/) [Oscar Wilde](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/oscar-wilde/) > [Who, being loved, is poor?](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/oscar-wilde/who-being-loved-is-poor/) [Oscar Wilde](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/oscar-wilde/) > [“Basil my dear boy puts everything that is charming in him into his work. The consequence is that he has nothing left for life…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/oscar-wilde/basil-my-dear-boy-puts-everything-that-is-charming-in-him-into-his/) [Oscar Wilde](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/oscar-wilde/) > [Anybody can be good in the country](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/oscar-wilde/anybody-can-be-good-in-the-country/) [Oscar Wilde](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/oscar-wilde/) > [I don't at all like knowing what people say of me behind my back. It makes me far too conceited.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/oscar-wilde/i-don-t-at-all-like-knowing-what-people-say-of-me-behind-my-back-it/) [Oscar Wilde](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/oscar-wilde/) > [“Alles Populäre ist falsch.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/oscar-wilde/alles-popul-re-ist-falsch/) [Oscar Wilde](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/oscar-wilde/) > [“If these elements of beauty are real, the whole thing simply appeals to our sense of dramatic effect. Suddenly we find that we are…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/oscar-wilde/if-these-elements-of-beauty-are-real-the-whole-thing-simply-appeals/) [Oscar Wilde](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/oscar-wilde/) > [To love one's self is the beginning of a life-long romance](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/oscar-wilde/to-love-one-s-self-is-the-beginning-of-a-life-long-romance/) [Oscar Wilde](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/oscar-wilde/) > [“Those who find beautiful meanings in beautiful things are the cultivated. For these there is hope.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/oscar-wilde/those-who-find-beautiful-meanings-in-beautiful-things-are-the/) [Oscar Wilde](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/oscar-wilde/) > [Men always want to be a womans first love. Women have a more subtle instinct: What they like is to be a mans last…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/oscar-wilde/men-always-want-to-be-a-womans-first-love-women-have-a-more-subtle/) [Oscar Wilde](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/oscar-wilde/) > [Why is it that at a bachelor's establishment the servants invariably drink the champagne.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/oscar-wilde/why-is-it-that-at-a-bachelor-s-establishment-the-servants-invariably/) [Oscar Wilde](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/oscar-wilde/) > [Moderation is a fatal thing. Enough is as bad as a meal. More than enough is as good as a feast.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/oscar-wilde/moderation-is-a-fatal-thing-enough-is-as-bad-as-a-meal-more-than/) [Oscar Wilde](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/oscar-wilde/) > [Beauty is the only thing that time cannot harm. Philosophies fall away like sand, creeds follow one another, but what is beautiful is a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/oscar-wilde/beauty-is-the-only-thing-that-time-cannot-harm-philosophies-fall-away/) [Oscar Wilde](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/oscar-wilde/) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/exquisite/oscar-wilde/#itemlist", "name": "15 Exquisite Quotes By Oscar Wilde", "numberOfItems": 15, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "“Talking to him was like playing upon an exquisite violin.”", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Oscar Wilde" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/oscar-wilde/talking-to-him-was-like-playing-upon-an-exquisite-violin/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a34/oscar-wilde-16_exquisite_talking-to-him-was-like-playing-upon-an_2261931.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a34/oscar-wilde-16_exquisite_talking-to-him-was-like-playing-upon-an_2261931.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a34/oscar-wilde-16_exquisite_talking-to-him-was-like-playing-upon-an_2261931.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“Talking to him was like playing upon an exquisite violin.” — Oscar Wilde", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 2, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "Don't be afraid. 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