“She is at rest. Peace, peace, she cannot hear, Lyre or sonnet, All my life's buried here, Heap earth upon it.” — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“The secret seems to be the only way to become mysterious and wonderful modern life. The commonest thing gets a touch fascinating… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
ï¶ Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead. The consciousness… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Be happy, be happy; you shall have your red rose. I will build it out of music by moonlight, and stain it… — 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
“Life had suddenly become too hideous a burden for him to bear. The dreadful death of the unlucky beater, shot in the… — 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
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 asked the question for the best reason possible, for the only reason, indeed, that excuses one for asking any question—simply curiosity.… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“The next day he did not leave the house, and, indeed, spent most of the time in his own room, sick with… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Death is a great price to pay for a red rose“, cried the Nightingale, "and Life is very dear to all. “… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Actions are the first tragedy in life, words are the second. Words are perhaps the worst. Words are merciless. . . — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“The aim of life is self-development. To realise one's nature perfectly-that is what each of us is here for. People are afraid… — 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
“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
“Love is the sacrament of life; it sets Virtue where virtue was not; cleanses men Of all the vile pollutions of this… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
I should have remembered that when one is going to lead an entirely new life, one requires regular and wholesome meals. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“Up to the present man has hardly cultivated sympathy at all. He has merely sympathy with pain, and sympathy with pain is… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“try as we may we cannot get behind things to the reality. And the terrible reason may be that there is no… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Every American bride is taken there [Niagara Falls], and the sight of the stupendous waterfall must be one of the earliest, if… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“That is one of the great secrets of life. Now days most people die of a sort of creeping common sense, and… — 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 Image
Bachelors should be heavily taxed. It is not fair that some men should be happier than others — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“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 Image
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 Image
“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 Image
“Those who find beautiful meanings in beautiful things are the cultivated. For these there is hope.” — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
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 Image