Pleasure Quotes by Oscar Wilde

I am a man of simple pleasures. The best suits me perfectly.

— Oscar Wilde

A passion for pleasure is the secret of remaining young.

— Oscar Wilde

Tea is the only simple pleasure left to us.

— Oscar Wilde

“in every pleasure, cruelty has its place...”

— Oscar Wilde

Dammit Sir, it's your duty to get married. You can't always be living for pleasure!

— Oscar Wilde

It is better to repent a sin than regret the loss of a pleasure.

— Oscar Wilde

Pleasure is Nature's test, her sign of approval.

— Oscar Wilde

Simple pleasures are always the last refuge of the complex

— Oscar Wilde

The aim of the liar is simply to charm, to delight, to give pleasure. He is the very basis of civilized society.

— Oscar Wilde

“LADY BRACKNELL I had some crumpets with Lady Harbury, who seems to me to be living entirely for pleasure now. ALGERNON I…

— Oscar Wilde

I threw the pearl of my soul into a cup of wine. I went down the primrose path to the sound of…

— Oscar Wilde

“Nothing remains then but the recollection of a pleasure, or the luxury of a regrate.”

— Oscar Wilde

Life cheats us with shadows. We ask it for pleasure. It gives it to us with bitterness and disappointment in its train.

— Oscar Wilde

Behind Joy and Laughter there may be a temperament, coarse, hard and callous. But behind Sorrow there is always Sorrow. Pain, unlike…

— Oscar Wilde

You must have a cigarette. A cigarette is the perfect type of a perfect pleasure. It is exquisite, and it leaves one…

— Oscar Wilde

I have never killed anyone, but I have often read about some guy getting his ass taken out with great pleasure

— Oscar Wilde

I have pleasures, and passions, but the joy of life is gone. I am going under: the morgue yawns for me. I…

— Oscar Wilde

I write because it gives me the greatest possible artistic pleasure to write. If my work pleases the few I am gratified.…

— Oscar Wilde

It is only shallow people who require years to get rid of an emotion. A man who is master of himself can…

— Oscar Wilde

A method of procuring sensations? Do you think then, that a man who has once committed a murder could possibly do the…

— Oscar Wilde

Is it thy will that I should wax and wane, Barter my cloth of gold for hodden grey, And at thy pleasure…

— Oscar Wilde

What between the duties expected of one during one's lifetime, and the duties exacted from one after one's death, land has ceased…

— Oscar Wilde

I tremble with pleasure when I think that on the very day of my leaving prison both the laburnum and the lilac…

— Oscar Wilde

Alone, and without any reference to his neighbours, without any interference, the artist can fashion a beautiful thing; and if he does…

— Oscar Wilde

Now it seems to me that love of some kind is the only possible explanation of the extraordinary amount of suffering that…

— Oscar Wilde

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

— Oscar Wilde

Behind joy and laughter there may be a temperament, coarse, hard and callous. But behind sorrow there is always sorrow. Pain, unlike…

— Oscar Wilde

Prosperity, pleasure and success, may be rough of grain and common in fibre, but sorrow is the most sensitive of all created…

— Oscar Wilde

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

— Oscar Wilde

There is no good talking to him," said a Dragon-fly, who was sitting on the top of a large brown bulrush; "no…

— Oscar Wilde

God knows; I won't be an Oxford don anyhow. I'll be a poet, a writer, a dramatist. Somehow or other I'll be…

— Oscar Wilde

Human life--that appeared to him the one thing worth investigating. Compared to it there was nothing else of any value. It was…

— Oscar Wilde

Pleasure is the only thing one should live for, nothing ages like happiness.

— Oscar Wilde

The secret to life is to enjoy the pleasure of being terribly, terribly deceived.

— Oscar Wilde

“Oh! Anything becomes a pleasure if one does it too often.”

— Oscar Wilde

Simple pleasures are the last healthy refuge in a complex world.

— Oscar Wilde

Pleasure without Champagne is purely artificial.

— Oscar Wilde

“Pleasure is the only thing worth having a theory about,”

— Oscar Wilde

Perhaps in nearly every joy, as certainly in every pleasure, cruelty has its place.

— Oscar Wilde

“anything becomes a pleasure if one does it too often,”

— Oscar Wilde