Moments Quotes by Oscar Wilde

He knew the precise psychological moment when to say nothing.

— Oscar Wilde

There are moments when art attains almost to the dignity of manual labor.

— Oscar Wilde

For one moment our lives met, our souls touched.

— Oscar Wilde

Suffering is one very long moment. We cannot divide it by seasons.

— Oscar Wilde

Judges, like the criminal classes, have their lighter moments

— Oscar Wilde

The moment one sits down to think, one becomes all nose, or all forehead, or something horrid

— Oscar Wilde

Fashion: by which what is really fantastic becomes for a moment the universal.

— Oscar Wilde

Life, Lady Stutfield, is simply a mauvais quart d'heure made up of exquisite moments.

— Oscar Wilde

At every single moment of one's life one is what one is going to be no less than what one has been.

— Oscar Wilde

There is something tragic about the enormous number of young men there are in England at the present moment who start life…

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A man's very highest moment is, I have no doubt at all, when he kneels in the dust, and beats his breast,…

— Oscar Wilde

To stake all one's life on a single moment, to risk everything on one throw, whether the stake be power or pleasure,…

— Oscar Wilde

We who live in prison, and in whose lives there is no event but sorrow, have to measure time by throbs of…

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The moment that an artist takes notice of what other people want, and tries to supply the demand, he ceases to be…

— Oscar Wilde

There were moments when he looked on evil simply as a mode through which he could realize his conception of the beautiful.

— Oscar Wilde

The fatal errors of life are not due to man's being unreasonable: an unreasonable moment may be one's finest moment. They are…

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Do not be afraid of the past. If people tell you that it is irrevocable, do not believe them. The past, the…

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There are moments when one has to choose between living one's own life, fully, entirely, completely-or dragging out some false, shallow, degrading…

— Oscar Wilde

As one knows the poet by his fine music, so one can recognize the liar by his rich rhythmic utterance, and in…

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If you meet at dinner a man who has spent his life in educating himself - a rare type in our time…

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When I am in trouble, eating is the only thing that consoles me. Indeed, as any one who knows me intimately will…

— Oscar Wilde

Suffering is one very long moment. We cannot divide it by seasons. We can only record its moods, and chronicle their return.…

— Oscar Wilde

Sometime you will find, even as I have found, that there is no such thing as romantic experience; there are romantic memories,…

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Society takes upon itself the right to inflict appalling punishment on the individual, but it also has the supreme vice of shallowness,…

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I am jealous of everything whose beauty does not die. I am jealous of the portrait you have painted of me. Why…

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The great events of life often leave one unmoved; they pass out of consciousness, and, when thinks of them, become unreal. Even…

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There was something terribly enthralling in the exercise of influence. No other activity was like it. To project one's soul into some…

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Jack? . . . No, there is very little music in the name Jack, if any at all, indeed. It does not…

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My sweet rose, my delicate flower, my lily of lilies, it is perhaps in prison that I am going to test the…

— Oscar Wilde

But beauty, real beauty, ends where an intellectual expression begins. Intellect is in itself a mode of exaggeration, and destroys the harmony…

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There are moments, psychologists tell us, when the passion for sin, or what the world calls sin, so dominates a nature, that…

— Oscar Wilde

There is no man who is not, at each moment, what he has been and what he will be.

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I forget what killed it. I think it was her proposing to sacrifice the whole world for me. That is always a…

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I don’t regret for a single moment having lived for pleasure. I did it to the full, as one should do everything…

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Musical people always want one to be perfectly dumb at the very moment when one is longing to be perfectly deaf.

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The only link between Literature and the Drama left to us in England at the present moment is the bill of the…

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Yes, very sensible... People die of common sense, Dorian, one lost moment at a time. Life is a moment. There is no…

— Oscar Wilde

I am not in favour of this modern mania for turning bad people into good people at a moment's notice.

— Oscar Wilde

My life-my whole life- take it, and do with it what you will. I love you-love you as I have never loved…

— Oscar Wilde