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Oscar Wilde Quotes

Total quotes: 99
“The final mystery is oneself. When one has weighed the sun in the balance, and measured the steps of the moon, and mapped out the seven heavens star by star, there still remains oneself. Who can calculate the orbit of his own soul?”
— Oscar Wilde, De Profundis and Other Prison Writings(Penguin Classics)
Tagged: Self-awareness, Mystery, Uncertainty, Personality
“Don’t be afraid. There are exquisite things in store for you. This is merely the beginning.”
— Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray
Tagged: Fear, Afraid, Bravery, Courage, Inspirational
“You are a wonderful creation. You know more than you think you know, just as you know less than you want to know.”
— Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray
Tagged: Encouragement, Sweet Messages
“There was so much in you that charmed me that I felt I must tell you something about yourself. I thought how tragic it would be if you were wasted.”
— Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray (Dover Thrift Editions)
Tagged: inspiration, Encouragement, Love, admiration
“Life has been your art. You have set yourself to music. Your days are your sonnets.”
— Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray (Dover Thrift Editions)
Tagged: Life, Art, Music, Days, sonnets, Metaphors, Inspirational
“I have given away my whole soul to someone who treats it as if it were a flower to put in his coat.”
— Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray
Tagged: Dedication
“The most terrible thing about it is not that it breaks one’s heart—hearts are made to be broken—but that it turns one’s heart to stone.”
— Oscar Wilde, De Profundis
Tagged: Broken Heart, Heartache, Hurting
“One should absorb the colour of life, but one should never remember its details. Details are always vulgar.”
— Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray (Dover Thrift Editions)
Tagged: Life Quotes, Live A Better Life, Inspirational
“Everything is dangerous… If it wasn’t so, life wouldn’t be worth living...”
— Oscar Wilde, An Ideal Husband
Tagged: Life, Life and Existence, Life and its Mysteries, dangerous life, Living Boldly, Living
“Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else’s opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.”
— Oscar Wilde, De Profundis
Tagged: Not original, fake thoughts, Not unique
“I think it's very healthy to spend time alone. You need to know how to be alone and not be defined by another person.”
— Oscar Wilde, Oscar Wilde Collection
Tagged: Oscar Wilde Quotes, Alone, Relationships Ending
“One of the many lessons that one learns in prison is, that things are what they are and will be what they will be.”
— Oscar Wilde, The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: De profundis, "Epistola : in carcere et vinculis"
Tagged: Prison, Prison Life
“A dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight, and his punishment is that he sees the dawn before the rest of the world.”
— Oscar Wilde, The critic as artist:(low cost). limited edition
Tagged: Dreamer, Awareness, Achieving dreams
“Ideals are dangerous things. Realities are better. They wound, but they are better.”
— Oscar Wilde, Lady Windermere's Fan
Tagged: Ideologies, Realities, Theories, Actualization
“I didn’t say I liked it, I said it fascinated me. There is a great difference.”
— Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray
Tagged: difference, fascination
“Life is far too important a thing ever to talk seriously about it.”
— Oscar Wilde, Lady Windermere's Fan
Tagged: Life, taking life seriously, Importance of Life
“She lives the poetry she cannot write.”
— Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray
Tagged: Poetic, admiration
“The heart was made to be broken.”
— Oscar Wilde, The Complete Letters of Oscar Wilde
Tagged: Loving Deeply
“People are very fond of giving away what they need most themselves.”
— Oscar Wilde, Complete Works of Oscar Wilde(Classic Reprint)
Tagged: Generosity, Giving, gifts, donation, help, Helping Others, self awareness, Needs
“But in some curious way — I wonder will you understand me?”
— Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray
Tagged: Curiosity, comprehending, Understanding
“Every saint has a past and every sinner has a future.”
— Oscar Wilde, A Woman of No Importance
Tagged: Chances of Being A Better Person, Character of a Person
“A burnt child loves the fire.”
— Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray
Tagged: danger, Poetic, Deep
“If a man treats a life artistically, his brain is his heart.”
— Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray (Dover Thrift Editions)
Tagged: Life, Art
“To define is to limit.”
— Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray
Tagged: Identity, Limit, definition, self, Unsplash + QC
“Even before I met you I was far from indifferent to you.”
— Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest
Tagged: Unconcern, unimportant
“I am tired of myself to-night. I should like to be somebody else.”
— Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray
Tagged: self, tired of self, self awareness, humor
“If you are not too long, I will wait here for you all my life.”
— Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest
Tagged: Patience, Waiting, Love
“The curves of your lips rewrite history.”
— Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray (Dover Thrift Editions)
Tagged: Perfect Words, 107 Of The Greatest Single Sentences In Literature, Perfect Sentences
“I never saw anybody take so long to dress, and with such little result.”
— Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest
Tagged: insults, outfit, ugly
“One should always be in love. That is the reason one should never marry.”
— Oscar Wilde, Oscar Wilde Quotes
Tagged: Cynical Love, love quotes, Love Again
“Behind every exquisite thing that existed, there was something tragic.”
— Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray (Dover Thrift Editions)
Tagged: tragic, beauty, Life
“A cigarette is the perfect type of a perfect pleasure. It is exquisite, and it leaves one unsatisfied. What more can one want?”
— Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray
Tagged: cigarette, Pleasure, exquisite, Unsatisfied
“For what does it profit a man to gain the whole world and lose his own soul?”
— Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray
Tagged: losing one's soul, selling one's soul, Fame, Wealth, owning the world, Mortality, Spirituality
“It is what you read when you don’t have to that determines what you will be when you can’t help it.”
— Oscar Wilde, Snippets of Oscar Wilde
Tagged: Reading, Read, reading hones, reading determines you, Personality
“...the worst of having a romance of any kind is that it leaves one so unromantic.”
— Oscar Wilde, Picture of Dorian Gray
Tagged: romance, Love, Break Up, Heartbreak
“There is always something ridiculous about the emotions of people whom one has ceased to love.”
— Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray
Tagged: emotions, Feelings, Human Emotion, Human All Too Human
“A man who is master of himself can end a sorrow as easily as he can invent a pleasure.”
— Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray
Tagged: Sorrows, ending sorrow, Overcoming Adversity, self control, choosing happiness over sadness, living and surviving, Thinking, Changing His Mind, changing the way you think
“A cynic is a man who knows the price of everything, and the value of nothing.”
— Oscar Wilde, Lazy Windermere
“It was the passions about whose origin we deceived ourselves that tyrannized most strongly over us.”
— Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray
Tagged: Passions, maturity, self, Self & Identity, Self Construction, Life
“Sin is a thing that writes itself across a man’s face. It cannot be concealed.”
— Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray
Tagged: Sin, transgression, Vices, viciousness, human beings, Human Arrogance
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