--- title: "6 Glasses Quotes By Oscar Wilde" description: "6 Glasses quotes by Oscar Wilde. Plus more from Oscar Wilde and more Glasses sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/809/oscar-wilde-16_drinking_after-the-first-glass-you-see-things-as_96781.jpg" --- > [After the first glass, you see things as you wish they were. After the second, you see things as they are not.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/oscar-wilde/after-the-first-glass-you-see-things-as-you-wish-they-were-after-the/) [Oscar Wilde](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/oscar-wilde/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/809/oscar-wilde-16_drinking_after-the-first-glass-you-see-things-as_96781.jpg) > [For us there is only one season, the season of sorrow. The very sun and moon seem taken from us. Outside, the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/oscar-wilde/for-us-there-is-only-one-season-the-season-of-sorrow-the-very-sun-and/) [Oscar Wilde](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/oscar-wilde/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/de7/oscar-wilde-16_blue_for-us-there-is-only-one-season-the-seas_399311.jpg) > [Too much work, and no vacation, Deserves at least a small libation. So hail! my friends, and raise your glasses, Work's the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/oscar-wilde/too-much-work-and-no-vacation-deserves-at-least-a-small-libation-so/) [Oscar Wilde](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/oscar-wilde/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/fcf/oscar-wilde-16_class_too-much-work-and-no-vacation-deserves-a_960305.jpg) > [A glass of absinthe is as poetical as anything in the world. What difference is there between a glass of absinthe and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/oscar-wilde/a-glass-of-absinthe-is-as-poetical-as-anything-in-the-world-what/) [Oscar Wilde](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/oscar-wilde/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e9c/oscar-wilde-16_absinthe_a-glass-of-absinthe-is-as-poetical-as-an_1248744.jpg) > [An optimist will tell you the glass is half-full; the pessimist, half-empty; and the engineer will tell you the glass is twice…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/oscar-wilde/an-optimist-will-tell-you-the-glass-is-half-full-the-pessimist-half/) [Oscar Wilde](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/oscar-wilde/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a26/oscar-wilde-16_empty_an-optimist-will-tell-you-the-glass-is-h_2378188.jpg) > [Human life--that appeared to him the one thing worth investigating. Compared to it there was nothing else of any value. It was…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/oscar-wilde/human-life-that-appeared-to-him-the-one-thing-worth-investigating/) [Oscar Wilde](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/oscar-wilde/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/57f/oscar-wilde-16_brain_human-life-that-appeared-to-him-the-one_2941187.jpg) ## Other authors on Glasses ## 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/glasses/oscar-wilde/#itemlist", "name": "6 Glasses Quotes By Oscar Wilde", "numberOfItems": 6, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "After the first glass, you see things as you wish they were. After the second, you see things as they are not. 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