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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There is much to be said in favor of modern journalism. By giving us the opinions of the uneducated, it keeps us in touch of the ignorance of the community. By carefully chronicling the current events of contemporary life, it shows us of what very li...

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Journalism justifies its own existence by the great Darwinian principle of the survival of the vulgarist.

Oscar Wilde

A kiss may ruin a human life

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it is a marvel that those red-roseleaf lips of yours should be made no less for the madness of music and song than for the madness of kissing.

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The man who sees both sides of a question is a man who sees absolutely nothing.

Oscar Wilde

The English novels are the only relaxation of the intellectually unemployed. But one should not be too severe on them. They show a want of knowledge that must be the result of years of study.

Oscar Wilde

Religion is like a blind man looking in a black room for a black cat that isn't there, and finding it.

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Great passions are for the great of soul, and great events can be seen only by those who are on a level with them

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To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.

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Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead. The consciousness of loving and being loved brings a warmth and a richness to life that nothing else can bring.

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The aim of life is self-development. To realize one's nature perfectly - that is what each of us is here for.

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Life is not complex. We are complex. Life is simple, and the simple thing is the right thing.

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Imagination is a quality that was given to man compensate him from whats not. The sense of humor was given to console him from what is.

Oscar Wilde

The consciousness of loving and being loved brings a warmth and richness to life that nothing else can bring.

Oscar Wilde

I'm a man of simple tastes. I'm always satisfied with the best.

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The world has become sad because a puppet was once melancholy. The nihilist, that strange martyr who has no faith, who goes to the stake without enthusiasm, and dies for what he does not believe in, is a purely literary product. He was invented by Tu...

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The truth is rarely pure and never simple. Modern life would be very tedious if it were either, and modern literature a complete impossibility.

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Literature always anticipates life. It doesn't copy it but moulds it to it's purpose.

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Be warned in time, James, and remain, as I do, incomprehensible: to be great is to be misunderstood

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I don't want to earn my living, I want to live.

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It is so easy to convince others; it is so difficult to convince oneself.

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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