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Oscar Wilde Quotes about Life - Page 3

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

The Book of Life begins with a man and a woman in a garden. It ends with Revelations.

The Book of Life begins with a man and a woman in a garden. It ends with Revelations.

Life, Book, Men

'A Woman of No Importance' (1893) act 1

My wallpaper and I are fighting a duel to the death. One of us has got to go.

Life, Death, Fighting

"The Picture of Dorian Gray".

He lives the poetry that he cannot write. The others write the poetry that they dare not realize

Life, Writing, Poetry

Oscar Wilde (2015). “The Picture of Dorian Gray (Diversion Classics)”, p.64, Diversion Books

When one is in love, one always begins by deceiving one's self, and one always ends by deceiving others. That is what the world calls a romance.

Love, Life, Breakup

The Picture of Dorian Gray ch. 4 (1891). A very similar statement is found inWilde's playAWoman of No Importance, act 3 (1893).

The stage is not merely the meeting place of all the arts, but is also the return of art to life.

Life, Art, Theatre

Oscar Wilde (1997). “Collected Works of Oscar Wilde: The Plays, the Poems, the Stories and the Essays Including De Profundis”, p.1026, Wordsworth Editions

Life! Life! Don't let us go to life for our fulfillment or our experience. It is a thing narrowed by circumstances, incoherent in its utterance, and without that fine correspondence of form and spirit which is the only thing that can satisfy the artistic

Life, Utterance, Spirit

Oscar Wilde (2014). “The Wit and Wisdom of Oscar Wilde”, p.34, Courier Corporation

We quaff the cup of life with eager haste without draining it, instead of which it only overflows the brim - objects press around us, filling the mind with the throng of desires that wait upon them, so that we have no room for the thoughts of death.

Life, Death, Waiting

The man who says he has exhausted life generally means that life has exhausted him.

Life, Mean, Men

A poet can survive everything but a misprint.

Funny, Life, Witty

Oscar Wilde (2016). “Reviews”, p.121, Oscar Wilde

A kiss may ruin a human life

Life, Kissing, May

Oscar Wilde (2004). “The Best of Oscar Wilde: Selected Plays and Writings”, p.164, Penguin

Wisdom comes with winters

Life, Wisdom, Winter

Oscar Wilde (2008). “A Selection: Easyread Super Large 20pt Edition”, p.227, ReadHowYouWant.com

It is love, and not German philosophy, that is the true explanation of the world, whatever may be the explanation of the next.

Life, Philosophy, World

Oscar Wilde (2012). “The Wit and Humor of Oscar Wilde”, p.101, Courier Corporation

To become a spectator of one's own life is to escape the suffering of life.

Life, Learning, Growth

Oscar Wilde (2012). “The Wit and Humor of Oscar Wilde”, p.22, Courier Corporation

One can survive everything, nowadays, except death, and live down everything except a good reputation.

Life, Death, Reality

It is a very sad thing that nowadays there is so little useless information.

Life, Sadness, Useless Things

Oscar Wilde (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Oscar Wilde (Illustrated)”, p.1670, Delphi Classics

Everything is dangerous, my dear fellow. If it wasn't so, life wouldn't be worth living.

Life, Dangerous, Dear

Oscar Wilde (2004). “The Best of Oscar Wilde: Selected Plays and Writings”, p.194, Penguin

Life is a great disappointment.

Life, Disappointment, Life Is

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

I love acting. It is so much more real than life.

Love, Funny, Life

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.55, Oxford University Press on Demand

Religion is the fashionable substitute for belief.

Life, Fashion, Religious

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.453, Oxford University Press on Demand

Ah! somehow life is bigger after all Than any painted angel could we see The God that is within us!

Life, Angel, Life Is

Oscar Wilde (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Oscar Wilde (Illustrated)”, p.774, Delphi Classics

Political life at Washington is like political life in a suburban vestry.

Life, Political, Cities At Night

Oscar Wilde (1969). “The Artist as Critic: Critical Writings of Oscar Wilde”, p.54, University of Chicago Press

I usually say what I really think. A great mistake nowadays. It makes one so liable to be misunderstood.

Life, Mistake, Thinking

Oscar Wilde (2004). “The Best of Oscar Wilde: Selected Plays and Writings”, p.198, Penguin

Life is not governed by will or intention. Life is a question of nerves, and fibres, and slowly built-up cells in which thought hides itself and passion has its dreams.

Life, Dream, Passion

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.158, Oxford University Press on Demand

Romance lives by repetition, and repetition converts an appetite into an art. Besides, each time that one loves is the only time one has ever loved. Difference of object does not alter singleness of passion. It merely intensifies it. We can have in life but one great experience at best, and the secret of life is to reproduce that experience as often as possible.

Life, Art, Passion

Oscar Wilde, Moira Muldoon (2005). “The Picture of Dorian Gray and Other Writings”, p.211, Simon and Schuster

It is always with the best intentions that the worst work is done.

Life, Work, Government

Oscar Wilde, General Press (2016). “The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: Novel, Short Stories, Poetry, Essays and Plays”, p.810, GENERAL PRESS

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