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Oscar Wilde Quotes

Total quotes: 62
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“I have roamed these halls for three centuries and I am so tired. If only I could rest...”
— Sir Simon de Canterville / The Ghost, The Canterville Ghost
Tagged: Ghost, Tired, Kvetching
“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: Principles, Aestheticism, Master, life choices, influence
“She is very clever, too clever for a woman. She lacks the indefinable charm of weakness.”
— Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray (Dover Thrift Editions)
Tagged: clever, Woman, Weakness, Oscar Wilde Quotes
“Whenever a man does a thoroughly stupid thing, it is always from the noblest motives.”
— Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray
Tagged: noble, Brave, Oscar Wilde Quotes, Stupid
“He wanted to be where no one would know who he was. He wanted to escape from himself.”
— Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray (Dover Thrift Editions)
Tagged: Escape, Own Worst Enemy, Leaving, Oscar Wilde Quotes
“There is only one thing in the world worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about.”
— Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray (Dover Thrift Editions)
Tagged: publicity, The World, Gossip
“The only people I would care to be with now are artists and people who have suffered: those who know what beauty is, and those who know what sorrow is: nobody else interests me.”
— Oscar Wilde, De Profundis
Tagged: Artists, beauty, Sorrow
“I would sooner come with you; yes, I feel I must come with you. Do let me. And you will promise to talk to me all the time? No one talks so wonderfully as you do.”
— Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray
Tagged: Crush, Thinking of You
“It takes great courage to see the world in all its tainted glory, and still to love it. And even more courage to see it in the one you love.”
— Oscar Wilde, An Ideal Husband
Tagged: Love, Relationships, Courage, Right, Wrong, Acceptance
“To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.”
— Oscar Wilde, The Soul of Man Under Socialism
Tagged: Meaning, Life, Ambition, Remembered, rare, Existence
“I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying.”
— Oscar Wilde, The Happy Prince and Other Stories
Tagged: clever, Intelligence, Communication
“Anybody can sympathize with the sufferings of a friend, but it requires a very fine nature to sympathize with a friend's success.”
— Oscar Wilde
Tagged: Friendship
“I hope you have not been leading a double life, pretending to be wicked and being good all the time. That would be hypocrisy.”
— Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest
Tagged: Oscar Wilde Quotes, Double Life, pretending, Fake People
“But then one regrets the loss even of one's worst habits. Perhaps one regrets them the most. They are such an essential part of one's personality.”
— Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray (Dover Thrift Editions)
Tagged: Reget, Loss And Love, Relationships, Oscar Wilde Quotes
“Always forgive your enemies—nothing annoys them so much.”
— Oscar Wilde, Oscar Wilde- a Florentine Tragedy
“Oh I can't explain. When I like people immensely I never tell their names to any one. It is like surrendering a part of them. I have grown to love secrecy. It seems to be the one thing that can make modern life mysterious or marvellous to us. The commonest thing is delightful if one only hides it.”
— Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray
Tagged: secrecy, Privacy, private person, Private life, hiding the people you like
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