Oscar Wilde Quotes about Heart

It's beauty that captures your attention. personality which captures your heart.

It's beauty that captures your attention. personality which captures your heart.

Beauty, Heart, Personality

To give and not expect return, that is what lies at the heart of love.

Lying, Love You, Heart

Loveless marriages are horrible. But there is one thing worse than an absolutely loveless marriage. A marriage in which there is love, but on one side only; faith, but on one side only; devotion, but on one side only, and in which of the two hearts one is sure to be broken.

Oscar Wilde

Faith, Heart, Two

Oscar Wilde (2007). “Epigrams of Oscar Wilde”, p.93, Wordsworth Editions

No man dies for what he knows to be true. Men die for what they want to be true, for what some terror in their hearts tells them is not true.

Oscar Wilde

Heart, Men, Atheism

Oscar Wilde (1969). “The Artist as Critic: Critical Writings of Oscar Wilde”, p.219, University of Chicago Press

If a man treats life artistically, his brain is his heart.

Oscar Wilde

Life, Heart, Men

Oscar Wilde (2015). “The Picture of Dorian Gray (with an Essay by Jules Barbey D'Aurevilly)”, p.136, Mondial

Nothing is good in moderation. You cannot know good in anything until you have torn the heart out of it by excess.

Oscar Wilde

Heart, Excess, Moderation

The most terrible thing about it is not that it breaks one’s heart—hearts are made to be broken—but that it turns one’s heart to stone.

Oscar Wilde

Heart, Broken, Stones

Oscar Wilde, Russell Jackson, Ian Small (2000). “The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: De profundis, "Epistola : in carcere et vinculis"”, p.108, Oxford University Press on Demand

One should always be in love.

Oscar Wilde

Heart

"Oscar Wilde's Wit and Wisdom: A Book of Quotations".

I don’t write this letter to put bitterness into your heart, but to pluck it out of mine. For my own sake I must forgive you.

Oscar Wilde

Writing, Heart, Forgiving

Oscar Wilde, Russell Jackson, Ian Small (2000). “The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: De profundis, "Epistola : in carcere et vinculis"”, p.94, Oxford University Press on Demand

Pleasures may turn a heart to stone, riches may make it callous, but sorrows cannot break it. Hearts live by being wounded.

Oscar Wilde

Heart, Sorrow, May

Oscar Wilde, Peter Raby (2008). “The Importance of Being Earnest and Other Plays: Lady Windermere's Fan; Salome; A Woman of No Importance; An Ideal Husband; The Importance of Being Earnest”, p.151, Oxford Paperbacks

Any place you love is the world to you”, explained the pensive Catherine Wheel, who had been attached to an old deal box in early life, and prided herself on her broken heart; “but love is not fashionable any more, the poets have killed it. They wrote so much about that nobody believed them, and I am not surprised. True love suffers, and is silent. I remember myself once- But it is no matter now. Romance is a thing of the past.

Oscar Wilde

Heart, Past, Love Is

The burden of this world is too great for one man to bear, and the world’s sorrow too heavy for one heart to suffer.

Oscar Wilde

Heart, Men, Suffering

Oscar Wilde, General Press (2016). “The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: Novel, Short Stories, Poetry, Essays and Plays”, p.365, GENERAL PRESS

My desire to live is as intense as ever, and though my heart is broken, hearts are made to be broken: that is why God sends sorrow into the world.

Oscar Wilde

Heart, Broken, Sorrow

Oscar Wilde (1962). “The letters of Oscar Wilde”

Poets know how useful passion is for publication. Nowadays a broken heart will run to many editions.

Oscar Wilde

Running, Passion, Heart

Oscar Wilde, General Press (2016). “The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: Novel, Short Stories, Poetry, Essays and Plays”, p.19, GENERAL PRESS

And thus we rust Life's iron chain Degraded and alone: And some men curse, and some men weep, And some men make no moan: But God's eternal Laws are kind And break the heart of stone

Oscar Wilde

Heart, Men, Law

Oscar Wilde (2013). “Selected Poems of Oscar Wilde”, p.14, Simon and Schuster

One must have a heart of stone to read the death of little Nell without laughing.

Oscar Wilde

Witty, Heart, Laughing

Quoted in Letters to the Sphinx from Oscar Wilde (1930)

For a year after that was done to me I wept every day at the same hour and for the same space of time. That is not such a tragic thing as possibly it sounds to you. To those who are in prison tears are a part of every day's experience. A day in prison on which one does not weep is a day on which one's heart is hard, not a day on which one's heart is happy.

Oscar Wilde

Heart, Years, Space

Oscar Wilde, Russell Jackson, Ian Small (2000). “The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: De profundis, "Epistola : in carcere et vinculis"”, p.128, Oxford University Press on Demand

God's eternal laws are kind-and break the heart of stone.

Oscar Wilde

Heart, Reality, Law

Oscar Wilde (2014). “Ballad of Reading Gaol”, p.34, Simon and Schuster

one pale woman all alone, The daylight kissing her wan hair, Loitered beneath the gas lamps' flare, With lips of flame and heart of stone.

Oscar Wilde

Women, Heart, Kissing

Oscar Wilde, Russell Jackson, Ian Small (2000). “The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: Poems and poems in prose”, p.153, Oxford University Press on Demand

You can have your secret as long as I have your heart[.]

Oscar Wilde

Heart, Long, Secret

Oscar Wilde (1997). “Collected Works of Oscar Wilde: The Plays, the Poems, the Stories and the Essays Including De Profundis”, p.212, Wordsworth Editions

But whether I become a believer or remain an agnostic, my belief or disbelief must derive its source from within, not from without. I, myself, must create its symbols. The transcendental is that which produces its own form. I will never discover its secret if I do not find it in my own heart; if I do not possess it already I shall never be able to acquire it.

Oscar Wilde

Heart, Secret, Able

Oscar Wilde, Jules Barbey d'Aurevilly, Lady Wilde, Henry Zick (1909). “The Complete Writings of Oscar Wilde: What never dies”

We are the zanies of sorrow. We are clowns whose hearts are broken.

Oscar Wilde

Heart, Broken, Sorrow

Oscar Wilde, Russell Jackson, Ian Small (2000). “The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: De profundis, "Epistola : in carcere et vinculis"”, p.187, Oxford University Press on Demand

Death is a great price to pay for a red rose“, cried the Nightingale, "and Life is very dear to all. “ It is pleasant to sit in the green wood, and watch the Sun in his chariot of gold, and the Moon in her chariot of pearl. Sweet is the scent oft he hawthorn, and sweet are the bluebells that hide in the valley, and the heather that blows on the hill. Yet Love is better than Life, and what is the heart of a bird compared to the heart of a man?

Oscar Wilde

Sweet, Heart, Blow

Oscar Wilde (2008). “Complete Fairy Tales of Oscar Wilde”, p.24, Penguin

And the marvellous rose became crimson, like the rose of the eastern sky. Crimson was the girdle of petals, and crimson as a ruby was the heart

Oscar Wilde

Heart, Sky, Rose

Oscar Wilde (2007). “The Collected Works of Oscar Wilde”, p.330, Wordsworth Editions

And her sweet red lips on these lips of mine Burned like the ruby fire set In the swinging lamp of a crimson shrine, Or the bleeding wounds of the pomegranate, Or the heart of the lotus drenched and wet With the spilt-out blood of the rose-red wine.

Oscar Wilde

Sweet, Heart, Wine

Oscar Wilde, Russell Jackson, Ian Small (2000). “The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: Poems and poems in prose”, p.154, Oxford University Press on Demand

Oscar Wilde Quotes about Heart

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