“Peace, Peace, she cannot hear Lyre or sonnet, All my life's buried here, Heap earth upon it.” — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“I never intend to grow old. The soul is born old but grows young. That is the comedy of life.” — 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
“It is sometimes said that the tragedy of an artist's life is that he cannot realize his ideal.” — 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
The one charm of marriage is that it makes a life of deception absolutely necessary for both parties. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Literature always anticipates life. It does not copy it, but moulds it to its purpose. The nineteenth century, as we know it,… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
I usually say what I really think. A great mistake nowadays. It makes one so liable to be misunderstood. — 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
“Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live. It is asking other people to live as one wishes to live.” — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“You will see the girl to whom I am going to give all my life, to whom I have given everything that… — 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
“I did not want any external influence in my life. You know how independent I am by nature. I have always been… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“You seem to forget that I am married, and the one charm of marriage is that it makes a life of deception… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“We can have in life but one great experience at best, and the secret of life is to reproduce that experience as… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“people who only love once in their lives are really shallow people. What they call their loyalty, and their fidelity, I call… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“I believe that if one man were to live out his life fully and completely, were to give form to every feeling,… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“The great things of life are what they seem to be, and for that reason, strange as it may sound to you,… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
It gets rough being alone but just as being alone had started from some place, one will not be alone for the… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“there is no doubt that genius lasts longer than beauty. That accounts for the fact that we all take such pains to… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“Nothing really at any period of my life was ever of the smallest importance to me compared with Art. But in the… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“And so, it is not our own life that we live, but the lives of the dead, and the soul that dwells… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“When I like people immensely I never tell their names to anyone. It is like surrendering a part of them. I have… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
There were times when it appeared to Dorian Gray that the whole of history was merely the record of his own 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. People are afraid… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“Youth! There is nothing like it. It’s absurd to talk of the ignorance of youth. The only people whose opinions I listen… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“I believe that if one man were to live out his life fully and completely, were to give form to every feeling,… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“There are few of us who have not sometimes wakened before dawn, either after one of those dreamless nights that make us… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“He is all my art to me now," said the painter gravely. "I sometimes think, Harry, that there are only two eras… — 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
Bachelors should be heavily taxed. It is not fair that some men should be happier than others — Oscar Wilde Copy Share
“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
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
“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
“Those who find beautiful meanings in beautiful things are the cultivated. For these there is hope.” — Oscar Wilde Copy Share
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
Why is it that at a bachelor's establishment the servants invariably drink the champagne. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share
Moderation is a fatal thing. Enough is as bad as a meal. More than enough is as good as a feast. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share
Beauty is the only thing that time cannot harm. Philosophies fall away like sand, creeds follow one another, but what is beautiful is a… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share
