Quotes from Oscar Wilde
The function of the artist is to invent, not to chronicle.
- Oscar Wilde
I have a dining room done in different shades of white, with white cushions embroidered in yellow silk: the effect is absolutely delightful and the room beautiful.
- Oscar Wilde
Ridicule is the tribute paid to the genius by the mediocrities.
- Oscar Wilde
You must have a cigarette. A cigarette is the perfect type of a perfect pleasure. It is exquisite, and it leaves one unsatisfied. What more can one want?
- Oscar Wilde
Love is easily killed.
- Oscar Wilde
Poor? What does that matter? When poverty creeps in at the door, love flies in through the window.
- Oscar Wilde
I was wrong. God's law is only Love.
- Oscar Wilde
It is difficult not to be unjust to what one loves.
- Oscar Wilde
You will always be loved, and you will always be in love with love. A grand passion is the privilege of people who have nothing to do.
- Oscar Wilde
You came to me to learn the Pleasure of Life and the Pleasure of Art. Perhaps I am chosen to teach you something much more wonderful, the meaning of Sorrow and its beauty.
- Oscar Wilde
I will love you always, because you will always be worthy of love.
- Oscar Wilde
One of the many lessons that one learns in prison is that things are what they are and will be what they will be.
- Oscar Wilde