“To become the spectator of one’s own life, as Harry says, is to escape the suffering of life.” — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Men know life too early. Women know life too late. That is the difference between men and women. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Everything is dangerous, my dear fellow. If it wasn't so, life wouldn't be worth living. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
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
Literature always anticipates life. It doesn't copy it but moulds it to it's purpose. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Life is never fair, and perhaps it is a good thing for most of us that it is not. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
It is a very poor consolation to be told that the man who has given one a bad dinner, or poor wine,… — 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
“I can now recreate life in a way that was hidden from me, before.'A dream of form in days of thought:” — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“Niagara ... is the first disappointment in the married life of many Americans who spend their honeymoon there.” — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Don't tell me that you have exhausted Life. When a man says that, one knows that life has exhausted him. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
It is only through Art and through Art only that we can realize our perfection; Through Art and art only that we… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“But this murder--was it to dog him all his life? Was he always to be burdened by his past? Was he really” — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
To be entirely free, and at the same time entirely dominated by law, is the eternal paradox of human life. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live; it is asking others to live as one wishes to live. And unselfishness… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Early in life she had discovered the important truth that nothing looks so like innocence as an indiscretion; and by a series… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Man is a being with myriad lives and myriad sensations, a complex, multiform creature that bears within itself strange legacies of thought… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
The mere existence of conscience, that faculty of which people prate so much nowadays, and are so ignorantly proud, is a sign… — 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
“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
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
“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
“Life has everything in store for you, Dorian. There is nothing that you, with your extraordinary good looks, will not be able… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“The great and golden rule of art as well as of life, wrote William Blake, is that the more distinct, sharp and… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“This is that CONSOLATION DES ARTS which is the key-note of Gautier’s poetry, the secret of modern life foreshadowed - as indeed… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“The security of society lies in custom and unconscious instinct, and the basis of the stability of society, as a healthy organism,… — 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
“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
I think life too complex a thing to be settled by these hard and fast rules. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
To elope is cowardly; it is running away from danger; and danger has become so rare in modern life. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
No theory of life seemed to him to be of any importance compared with life itself — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
To live is the most rarest thing in the world;most people exist,that is all. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“Life is never fair, Robert. And perhaps it is a good thing for most of us that it is not.” — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
All trials are trials for one's life, just as all sentences are sentences of death. — 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
