Ah! somehow life is bigger after all Than any painted angel could we see The God that is within us! — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
The secret to life is to enjoy the pleasure of being terribly, terribly deceived. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
The sure way of knowing nothing about life is to try to make oneself useful. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
The first duty in life is to be as artificial as possible. What the second duty is no one has as yet… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Life is one fool thing after another whereas love is two fool things after each other. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Life is the art of being well deceived, and to succeed, it must be habitual and uninterrupted. — 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
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
Life is not governed by will or intention. Life is a question of nerves, and fibres, and slowly built-up cells in which… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
I have pleasures, and passions, but the joy of life is gone. I am going under: the morgue yawns for me. I… — 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 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
For life is terribly deficient in form. Its catastrophes happen in the wrong way and to the wrong people. There is a… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
It's tragic how few people ever 'possess their souls' before they die. 'Nothing is more rare in any man', says Emerson, 'than… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Romance lives by repetition, and repetition converts an appetite into an art. Besides, each time that one loves is the only time… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Life is a question of nerves, and fibres, and slowly built-up cells in which thought hides itself and passion has its dreams.… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
A man's life is of more value than a woman's. It has larger issues, wider scope, greater ambitions. Our lives revolve in… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
And if life be, as it surely is, a problem to me, I am no less a problem to life. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
We spend our days, each one of us, in looking for the secret of life. Well, the secret of life is in… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
He made me see what Life is, and what Death signifies, and why Love is stronger than both. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
The only one you need in your life is that person who shows you he needs you in his. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Life is not complex. We are complex. Life is simple, and the simple thing is the right thing. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Yes, very sensible... People die of common sense, Dorian, one lost moment at a time. Life is a moment. There is no… — 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
It is sometimes said that the tragedy of an artist's life is that he cannot realise his ideal. But the true tragedy… — 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
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
