Quote by Oscar Wilde Download Open image ““Yes, the lad was premature. He was gathering his harvest while it was yet spring.”” — Oscar Wilde ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.2 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare
“It seemed as if at least a moment some spring had burst forth in his barren soul.” — Väinö Linna Copy Share Image
“Though he works and worries, the farmer never reaches down to where the seed turns into summer. The earth grants.” — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
“It was the skinny boy’s stillness, he decided later. Those lines of age in a face as young as mine. His look of winter… — John le Carré Copy Share Image
“He had perhaps seen fifty springs and was therefore already very old, but his tireless body moved with an agility I myself often lacked.” — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
“A little stimulated at not finding her ready and waiting - so fanciful are men! - he hastened on...” — Thomas Hardy Copy Share Image
“The minutes I had left with him fall away like dead leaves pulled from branches.” — Veronica Roth Copy Share Image
“It was the truth, vivid and monstrous, that all the while he had waited the wait was itself his portion.” — Henry James Copy Share Image
“In spite of all the farmer's work and worry, he can't reach down to where the seed is slowly transmuted into summer. The earth… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
“you have to plant things even if you don't think you'll get to see the harvest.” — Anna Hess Copy Share Image
“Maybe he got tired of waiting and he'd gone without me though I doubted that was the case and decided he was probably doing… — Kristen Ashley Copy Share Image
“Able closed his eyes. He was running. The grass was green with spring and fragrant, knee-high and cushioning his steps. And there was sun… — Lance Weller Copy Share Image
The books that the world calls immoral are the books that show the world its own shame. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Bachelors should be heavily taxed. It is not fair that some men should be happier than others — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“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 Image
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 Image
“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 Image
“Those who find beautiful meanings in beautiful things are the cultivated. For these there is hope.” — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
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 Image