Quotes from Oscar Wilde
Philosophies fall away like sand, and creeds follow on another like the withered leaves of Autumn.
- Oscar Wilde
All I want to do now is look at life. You may come and look at it with me, if you care to.
- Oscar Wilde
He lives the poetry that he cannot write. The others write the poetry that they dare not realize
- Oscar Wilde
Wordsworth went to the Lakes, but he was never a lake poet. He found in stones the sermons he had already hidden there.
- Oscar Wilde
With slouch and swing around the ringWe trod the Fools' Parade!We did not care: we knew we wereThe Devils' Own Brigade:And shaven head and feet of leadMake a merry masquerade.
- Oscar Wilde
Cats are put on earth to remind us that not everything has a purpose.
- Oscar Wilde
People fashion their God after their own understanding. They make their God first and worship him afterwards.
- Oscar Wilde
God's eternal laws are kind-and break the heart of stone.
- Oscar Wilde
If God really wanted to punish, he'd answer all our prayers.
- Oscar Wilde
The terror of society, which is the basis of morals, the terror of God, which is the secret of religion-these are the two things that govern us.
- Oscar Wilde
The universe is God. I am God so that means I am the universe.
- Oscar Wilde
Every single human being should be the fulfilment of a prophecy: for every human being should be the realisation of some ideal, either in the mind of God or in the mind of man.
- Oscar Wilde