Quotes from Oscar Wilde
He thinks like a Tory, and talks like a Radical, and that's so important nowadays.
- Oscar Wilde
I have pleasures, and passions, but the joy of life is gone. I am going under: the morgue yawns for me. I go and look at my zinc-bed there. After all, I had a wonderful life, which is, I fear, over.
- Oscar Wilde
The artistic life is a long, lovely suicide.
- Oscar Wilde
Whatever, in fact, is modern in our life we owe to the Greeks. Whatever is an anachronism is due to mediaevalism.
- Oscar Wilde
LORD ILLINGWORTH: The soul is born old but grows young. That is the comedy of life. MRS ALLONBY: And the body is born young and grows old. That is life's tragedy.
- Oscar Wilde
Faithfulness is to the emotional life what consistency is to the life of the intellect - simply a confession of failures.
- Oscar Wilde
Sin is the only real colour element left in modern life.
- Oscar Wilde
Misfortunes one can endure--they come from outside, they are accidents. But to suffer for one's own faults--ah!--there is the sting of life.
- Oscar Wilde
All trials are trials for one's life, just as all sentences are sentences of death.
- Oscar Wilde
Every American bride is taken there [Niagara Falls], and the sight of the stupendous waterfall must be one of the earliest, if not the keenest, disappointments in American married life.
- Oscar Wilde
If you want to be a doormat you have to lay yourself down first.
- Oscar Wilde
I am sorry my life is so marred and maimed by extravagance. But I cannot live otherwise. I, at any rate, pay the penalty of suffering.
- Oscar Wilde