Oscar Wilde Quotes
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Finding the meaning of life is easy. Simply get a dictionary, go to the 'L' section, and find the word 'life.'
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My sweet rose, my delicate flower, my lily of lilies, it is perhaps in prison that I am going to test the power of love. I am going to see if I cannot make the bitter warders sweet by the intensity of the love I bear you. I have had moments when I thought it would be wise to separate. Ah! Moments of weakness and madness! Now I see that would have mutilated my life, ruined my art, broken the musical chords which make a perfect soul. Even covered with mud I shall praise you, from the deepest abysses I shall cry to you. In my solitude you will be with me.
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The story of mankind began in a garden and ended in revelations.
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My wallpaper and I are fighting a duel to the death. One or the other of us has to go.
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And if life be, as it surely is, a problem to me, I am no less a problem to life.
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It is always with the best intentions that the worst work is done.
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And alien tears will fill for him Pity's long-broken urn, For his mourners will be outcast men, And outcasts always mourn.
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Life under a good government is rarely dramatic; life under a bad government is always so.
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Love is fed by the imagination, by which we become wiser than we know, better than we feel, nobler than we are: by which we can see life as a whole, by which and by which alone we can understand others in their real and their ideal relation. Only what is fine, and finely conceived can feed love. But anything will feed hate.
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I like persons better than principles, and I like persons with no principles better than anything else in the world.
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A burnt child loves the fire.
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Our ambition should be to rule ourselves, the true kingdom for each one of us; and true progress is to know more, and be more, and to do more.
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No man is rich enough to buy back his past.
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Pleasure is Nature's test, her sign of approval. When man is happy, he is in harmony with himself and his environment.
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It is difficult not to be unjust to what one loves.
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One should never make one's debut in a scandal. One should reserve that to give interest to one's old age.
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The basis of action is lack of imagination. It is the last resource of those who know not how to dream.
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Sometimes the poor are praised for being thrifty. But to recommend thrift to the poor is both grotesque and insulting. It is like advising a man who is starving to eat less.
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I find it harder and harder every day to live up to my blue china.
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Hatred is blind, as well as love.
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It's beauty that captures your attention. Personality which captures your heart.
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The only thing I cannot resist is temptation.
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Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live, it is asking others to live as one wishes to live.
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We are each our own devil, and we make this world our hell.