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Oscar Wilde Quotes about Happiness

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A flower blossoms for its own joy.

Oscar Wilde (2014). “The Wit and Wisdom of Oscar Wilde”, p.54, Courier Corporation

With freedom, books, flowers, and the moon, who could not be happy?

Oscar Wilde, Isobel Murray (1999). “The Soul of Man, and Prison Writings”, p.128, Oxford University Press, USA

Pleasure is the only thing one should live for, nothing ages like happiness.

Oscar Wilde (2016). “Miscellanies”, p.173, Oscar Wilde

When we are happy, we are always good, but when we are good, we are not always happy.

Oscar Wilde (2007). “The Collected Works of Oscar Wilde”, p.56, Wordsworth Editions

To do nothing at all is the most difficult thing in the world, the most difficult and the most intellectual.

Oscar Wilde (2007). “The Collected Works of Oscar Wilde”, p.996, Wordsworth Editions

Rich bachelors should be heavily taxed. It is not fair that some men should be happier than others.

Oscar Wilde (2007). “Epigrams of Oscar Wilde”, p.11, Wordsworth Editions

Every man of ambition has to fight his century with its own weapons. What this century worships is wealth. The God of this century is wealth. To succeed one must have wealth. At all costs one must have wealth.

Oscar Wilde (1997). “Collected Works of Oscar Wilde: The Plays, the Poems, the Stories and the Essays Including De Profundis”, p.615, Wordsworth Editions

One should either be a work of art, or wear a work of art.

Oscar Wilde (2011). “Epigrams and Aphorisms”, p.67, BoD – Books on Demand

The way of paradoxes is the way of truth. To test Reality we must see it on the tight-rope.

Oscar Wilde (2015). “The Picture of Dorian Gray”, p.50, First Avenue Editions

The true mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible.

Oscar Wilde (2015). “The Picture of Dorian Gray”, p.31, First Avenue Editions

Find expression for a sorrow, and it will become dear to you. Find expression for a joy, and you will intensify its ecstasy.

Oscar Wilde, General Press (2016). “The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: Novel, Short Stories, Poetry, Essays and Plays”, p.701, GENERAL PRESS

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

Oscar Wilde, Russell Jackson, Joseph Bristow, Ian Small (2000). “The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: The picture of Dorian Gray : the 1890 and 1891 texts”, p.183, Oxford University Press on Demand

To know anything about oneself one must know all about others.

Oscar Wilde (2016). “Aphorisms”, p.16, Oscar Wilde