Oscar Wilde Quotes about Disappointment

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Life cheats us with shadows. We ask it for pleasure. It gives it to us with bitterness and disappointment in its train.

Life cheats us with shadows. We ask it for pleasure. It gives it to us with bitterness and disappointment in its train.

Oscar Wilde

Disappointment, Giving, Shadow

Oscar Wilde (2007). “Epigrams of Oscar Wilde”, p.67, Wordsworth Editions

Make some sacrifice for your art and you will be repaid, but ask of art to sacrifice herself for you and a bitter disappointment may come to you.

Oscar Wilde

Art, Disappointment, Sacrifice

Oscar Wilde (2014). “The Wit and Wisdom of Oscar Wilde”, p.48, Courier Corporation

Life is a great disappointment.

Oscar Wilde

Life, Disappointment, Life Is

Oscar Wilde (2015). “The Picture of Dorian Gray (with an Essay by Jules Barbey D'Aurevilly)”, p.114, Mondial

In England, an inventor is regarded almost as a crazy man, and in too many instances invention ends in disappointment and poverty. In America, an inventor is honoured, help is forthcoming, and the exercise of ingenuity, the application of science to the work of man, is there the shortest road to wealth.

Oscar Wilde

Disappointment, Crazy, Exercise

Oscar Wilde, Merlin Holland (2003). “Collins complete works of Oscar Wilde”, HarperCollins UK

Every American bride is taken there [Niagara Falls], and the sight of the stupendous waterfall must be one of the earliest, if not the keenest, disappointments in American married life.

Oscar Wilde

Disappointment, Fall, Taken

Oscar Wilde (1969). “The Artist as Critic: Critical Writings of Oscar Wilde”, p.7, University of Chicago Press

I was disappointed in Niagara - most people must be disappointed in Niagara. Every American bride is taken there, and the sight of the stupendous waterfall must be one of the earliest, if not the keenest, disappointments in American married life.

Oscar Wilde

Travel, Disappointment, Taken

Oscar Wilde (1969). “The Artist as Critic: Critical Writings of Oscar Wilde”, p.7, University of Chicago Press