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Oscar Wilde Quotes about Life - Page 2

All Oscar Wilde Quotes Achievement Acting Affection Age Aging Ambition Anger Appearance Appreciation Arguing Art Atheism Atmosphere Attitude Authority Beauty Beer Being Happy Being Real Being Single Being Yourself Belief Betrayal Blame Break Up Business Censorship Change Chaos Character Charity Children Christ Church College Common Sense Community Conformity Conscience Consciousness Cooking Country Courage Creativity Crime Criticism Critics Culture Curiosity Death Deception Defeat Desire Destiny Dignity Disappointment Doubt Drama Drinking Drunkenness Duty Dying Earth Eating Education Environment Ethics Evil Exercise Failing Failure Faith Falling In Love Family Fashion Fear Feelings Fidelity Fighting Flirting Food Forgiveness Friends Friendship Funny Future Genius Giving Gold Goodness Gossip Graduation Gratitude Greatness Greek Grief Growing Old Growth Happiness Hard Work Harmony Hate Hatred Heart Heartbreak Heaven Hell Hilarious History Home Honesty Hope Horror House Human Nature Humanity Hurt Husband Hypocrisy Ignorance Imagination Imitation Impulse Individualism Individuality Innocence Inspiration Inspirational Inspiring Integrity Intelligence Irony Journalism Joy Judgement Judging Kissing Knowledge Language Laughter Leadership Learning Liars Liberty Life quotes Life And Love Listening Literature Live Life Logic Loss Lost Love Love Love Life Luck Lust Lying Madness Mankind Manners Marriage Mask Maturity Mediocrity Memories Moderation Money Moon Morality Morning Motivational Mourning Music Nature Oblivion Opportunity Optimism Pain Passion Past Peace Perception Perfection Personality Perspective Pessimism Philosophy Pleasure Poetry Positive Poverty Prayer Prejudice Progress Purpose Quality Rage Reading Reality Rebellion Regret Rejection Religion Reputation Respect Risk Romance Romantic Love Romanticism Running Sacrifice Sad Sadness Sarcasm School Science Selfishness Silence Simplicity Sin Sincerity Sleep Society Solitude Sorrow Soul Spring Struggle Study Stupidity Style Success Suffering Summer Survival Sympathy Talent Tea Teaching Temptation Terror Theatre Time Tragedy Train Travel Truth Ugliness Understanding Utopia Values Virtue Vision Waiting Wall War Water Weakness Wife Wine Winning Winter Wisdom Wit Work Worship Writing Yoga Youth

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

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

Life, Heart, Men

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

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

Love, Life, Meaningful

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

Life, Simple, Inspire

Oscar Wilde (2012). “The Wit and Humor of Oscar Wilde”, p.74, Courier Corporation

One can live for years sometimes without living at all, and then all life comes crowding into one single hour.

Life, Years, Sometimes

Oscar Wilde (2000). “The Plays of Oscar Wilde”, p.46, Wordsworth Editions

When the gods wish to punish us they answer our prayers.

Life, Success, Death

An Ideal Husband act 2 (1895) See Goethe 15; T. H. Huxley 4; Modern Proverbs 14; George Bernard Shaw 16; Wilde 56

The secret of life is in art.

Life, Art, Philosophy

Oscar Wilde (2007). “Epigrams of Oscar Wilde”, p.41, Wordsworth Editions

There is something terribly morbid in the modern sympathy with pain. One should sympathise with the colour, the beauty, the joy of life. The less said about life's sores the better.

Life, Sympathy, Pain

Oscar Wilde (2015). “The Picture of Dorian Gray”, p.51, First Avenue Editions

To be in love is to surpass one's self.

Life, Love Is, Self

Oscar Wilde (2005). “Picture of Dorian Gray”, p.62, Prestwick House Inc

A thing is not necessarily true because a man dies for it.

Inspirational, Life, Death

'Sebastian Melmoth' (1905) p. 12. Oscariana (1910) p. 8

Life is far too important a thing ever to talk seriously about.

Inspirational, Funny, Life

Oscar Wilde (2014). “The Importance of Being Earnest and Other Plays”, p.116, Simon and Schuster

To believe is very dull. To doubt is intensely engrossing. To be on the alert is to live, to be lulled into security is to die.

Inspirational, Life, Courage

Quoted in Hesketh Pearson, Oscar Wilde, His Life and Wit (1946)

Do you really think it is weakness that yields to temptation? I tell you that there are terrible temptations which it requires strength, strength and courage to yield to.

Inspirational, Life, Motivational

Oscar Wilde (2015). “An Ideal Husband”, p.40, Sheba Blake Publishing

One's only real life is the life one never leads.

Life, Real, Real Life

I put all my genius into my life; I put only my talent into my works.

Life, Work, Book

Oscar Wilde (2012). “Oscar Wilde's Wit and Wisdom: A Book of Quotations”, p.3, Courier Corporation

Most people die of a sort of creeping common sense, and discover when it is too late that the only things one never regrets are one's mistakes.

Inspirational, Life, Death

The Picture of Dorian Gray ch. 3 (1891)

Be happy, be happy; you shall have your red rose. I will build it out of music by moonlight, and stain it with my own heart's-blood. All that I ask of you in return is that you will be a true lover, for Love is wiser than Philosophy, though she is wise, and mightier than Power, though he is mighty.

Life, Wise, Philosophy

Oscar Wilde, General Press (2016). “The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: Novel, Short Stories, Poetry, Essays and Plays”, p.296, GENERAL PRESS

Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead.

Love, Inspirational, Life

Oscar Wilde (2007). “Epigrams of Oscar Wilde”, p.103, Wordsworth Editions

The first duty in life is to be as artificial as possible. What the second duty is no one has as yet discovered.

Life, Firsts, Duty

Oscar Wilde (2007). “Epigrams of Oscar Wilde”, p.120, Wordsworth Editions

I treated Art as the supreme reality and life as a mere mode of fiction.

Life, Art, Reality

Letter to Alfred Douglas, Jan. - Mar. 1897

Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live, it is asking others to live as one wishes to live.

Life, Sad, Beautiful

Oscar Wilde (2016). “Aphorisms”, p.64, Oscar Wilde

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

Life, Happiness, Success

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

Discontent is the first step in the progress of a man or a nation.

Life, Men, Progress

Oscar Wilde (2007). “Epigrams of Oscar Wilde”, p.65, Wordsworth Editions

Nothing can cure the soul but the senses, just as nothing can cure the senses but the soul.

Inspirational, Life, Spiritual

Oscar Wilde (2007). “Epigrams of Oscar Wilde”, p.215, Wordsworth Editions

Those who are faithful know only the trivial side of love: it is the faithless who know love's tragedies.

Love, Life, Heartbreak

Oscar Wilde (2007). “The Collected Works of Oscar Wilde”, p.12, Wordsworth Editions

Life has been your art. You have set yourself to music. Your days are your sonnets.

Life, Art, Expression

Oscar Wilde, General Press (2016). “The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: Novel, Short Stories, Poetry, Essays and Plays”, p.164, GENERAL PRESS

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