Well, I don’t like your clothes. You look perfectly ridiculous in them. Why on earth don’t you go up and change? It’s perfectly childish to be in mourning for a man who is actually staying a whole week with you in your house as a guest. I call it grotesque.

— Oscar Wilde

Oscar Wilde Quotes

To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.

— Oscar Wilde
Life Deep About Life Interesting Short

The very essence of romance is uncertainty.

— Oscar Wilde
Love You Short Love Falling in Love Romantic for Her

Behind every exquisite thing that existed, there was something tragic.

— Oscar Wilde
Sad Sad About Life Sadness

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

— Oscar Wilde
Short About Life Short Positive Positive Short Meaning of Life

Fashion: by which what is really fantastic becomes for a moment the universal.

— Oscar Wilde

To be entirely free, and at the same time entirely dominated by law, is the eternal paradox of human life.

— Oscar Wilde

Whenever life sucks, remember you’re going to die someday.

— Oscar Wilde

Love is like a war; easy to start but hard to end and you never know where it might take you.

— Oscar Wilde

Genius is born-not paid.

— Oscar Wilde

At every single moment of one’s life one is what one is going to be no less than what one has been.

— Oscar Wilde

Our ambition should be to rule ourselves, the true kingdom for each one of us; and true progress is to know more, and be more, and to do more.

— Oscar Wilde
Ambition Progress

As long as war is regarded as wicked, it will always have its fascination. When it is looked upon as vulgar, it will cease to be popular.

— Oscar Wilde

No object is so beautiful that, under certain conditions, it will not look ugly.

— Oscar Wilde

To look wise is quite as good as understanding a thing, and very much easier.

— Oscar Wilde

Daughter of Sodom, come not near me! But cover thy face with a veil, and scatter ashes upon thine head, and get thee to the desert and seek out the Son of Man.

— Oscar Wilde

Art begins with abstract decoration with purely imaginative and pleasurable work dealing with what is unreal and non existent.

— Oscar Wilde

The Mystical in Art, the Mystical in Life, the Mystical in Nature this is what I am looking for. It is absolutely necessary for me to find it somewhere.

— Oscar Wilde

I wish I could love,” cried Dorian Gray with a deep note of pathos in his voice. “But I seem to have lost the passion and forgotten the desire. I am too much concentrated on myself. My own personality has become a burden to me.

— Oscar Wilde

Don’t talk about horrid subjects. If one doesn’t talk about a thing, it has never happened.

— Oscar Wilde

The highest as the lowest form of criticism is a mode of autobiography. Those who find ugly meanings in beautiful things are corrupt without being charming. This is a fault. Those who find beautiful meanings in beautiful things are the cultivated. For these there is hope. They are the elect to whom beautiful things mean only beauty.

— Oscar Wilde
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