Quotes by Oscar Wilde

About Oscar Wilde:

Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde is remembered for his epigrams, his novel The Picture of Dorian Gray, his plays, as well as the circumstances of his imprisonment and early death.
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I drink to separate my body from my soul.

Oscar Wilde

The worst of it is that I am perpetually being punished for nothing; this governor loves to punish, and he punishes by taking my books away from me. It's perfectly awful to let the mind grind itself away between the upper and nether millstones of reg...

Oscar Wilde

With slouch and swing around the ring We trod the Fools’ Parade! We did not care: we knew we were The Devils’ Own Brigade: And shaven head and feet of lead Make a merry masquerade.

Oscar Wilde

Si no podéis disfrutar leyendo un libro repetidas veces, de nada sirve leerlo ni una sola vez.

Oscar Wilde

My own business always bores me to death; I prefer other people's.

Oscar Wilde

Keen winter stabs the breasts of May Whose crimson roses burst his frost, Ships tempest-tossed Will find a harbour in some bay, And so may.

Oscar Wilde

I won't tell you that the world matters nothing, or the world's voice, or the voice of society. They matter a good deal. They matter far too much. But there are moments when one has to choose between living one's own life, fully, entirely, completely...

Oscar Wilde

Appearance blinds, whereas words reveal.

Oscar Wilde

Out of the unreal shadows of the night comes back the real life that we had known

Oscar Wilde

I think God, in creating man, somewhat overestimated his ability.

Oscar Wilde

To give an accurate description of what has never occurred is not merely the proper occupation of the historian, but the inalienable privilege of any man of parts and culture.

Oscar Wilde

A cynic is a man who knows the price of everything, and the value of nothing.

Oscar Wilde

Either this wallpaper goes, or I do.

Oscar Wilde

My wallpaper and I are fighting a duel to the death. One or the other of us has to go.

Oscar Wilde

High hopes were once formed of democracy; but democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people by the people for the people.

Oscar Wilde

If you don't get everything you want, think of the things you don't get that you don't want.

Oscar Wilde

We are each our own devil, and we make this world our hell.

Oscar Wilde

Niagara ... is the first disappointment in the married life of many Americans who spend their honeymoon there.

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After the first glass, you see things as you wish they were. After the second, you see things as they are not. Finally, you see things as they really are, and that is the most horrible thing in the world.

Oscar Wilde

Duty is what one expects from others.

Oscar Wilde

Illness of any kind is hardly a thing to be encouraged in others. Health is the primary duty of life.

Oscar Wilde

Author Bio

  • NameOscar Wilde
  • DescriptionIrish writer and poet
  • AliasesOscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde
  • BornOctober 16, 1854
  • DiedNovember 30, 1900
  • CountryUnited Kingdom Of Great Britain And Ireland
  • ProfessionPoet; Playwright; Short Story Writer; Journalist; Children's Writer; Novelist
  • WorksThe Importance Of Being Earnest; The Picture Of Dorian Gray