Life is never fair, and perhaps it is a good thing for most of us that it is not. — 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
The sure way of knowing nothing about life is to try to make oneself useful. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
The secret to life is to enjoy the pleasure of being terribly, terribly deceived. — 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
“To become the spectator of one’s own life, as Harry says, is to escape the suffering of life.” — 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
“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
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
Well, I know, of course, how important it is not to keep a business engagement, if one wants to retain any sense… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“But it was to teach man to concentrate himself upon the moments of a life that is itself but a moment.” — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“You have never been poor, and never known what ambition is. Wealth has given me enormous power. It gave me at the… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
I see that any materialism in life coarsens the soul, and that the hunger of the body and the appetites of the… — 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
“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
Really, this horrid House of Commons quite ruins our husbands for us. I think the Lower House by far the greatest blow… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“Yet, as has been said of him before, no theory of life seemed to him to be of any importance compared with… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“You know how I love secrecy. It is the only thing that can make modern life wonderful or mysterious to us. The… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
The mere mechanical technique of acting can be taught, but the spirit that is to give life to lifeless forms must be… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
I was disappointed in Niagara - most people must be disappointed in Niagara. Every American bride is taken there, and the sight… — 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
Each man lived his own life and paid his own price for living it. The only pity was one had to pay… — 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
“I never change. MRS. CHEVELEY: (elevating her eyebrows) Then life has taught you nothing? LADY CHILTERN: It has taught me that a… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“Of course to one so modern as I am, 'Enfant de mon siècle,’ merely to look at the world will be always… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“Sin is the only real colour-element left in modern life.' 'You really must not say things like that before Dorian, Harry.' 'Before… — 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
“If they know nothing of death, it is because they know little of life, for the secrets of life and death belong… — 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
“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 love you, I love you, my heart is a rose which your love has brought to bloom, my life is a… — 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
“life having its elaborate masterpieces, just as poetry has, or sculpture, or painting.” — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
In modern life nothing produces such an effect as a good platitude. It makes the whole world kin. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
To become a spectator of one's own life is to escape the suffering of life. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“It is only when one has lost all things, that one knows that one possesses it” — 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
