"I believe that if one man were to live out his life fully and completely, were to give form to every feeling, expression to every thought, reality to ...
Life has always poppies in her hands.
More Oscar Wilde quotes
"Life imitates art far more than art imitates Life.
"If you want to be a grocer, or a general, or a politician, or a judge, you will invariably become it; that is your punishment. If you never know what ...
"[Letter to William Ward, 11 July 1878]Dear Boy, Why don’t you write to me? I don’t know what has become of you.As for me I am ruined. The law suit is ...
"To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.
"The one charm about marriage is that it makes a life of deception absolutely necessary for both parties.
"There is something terribly morbid in the modern sympathy with pain. One should sympathise with the colour, the beauty, the joy of life. The less said...
"Imagination is a quality that was given to man compensate him from whats not. The sense of humor was given to console him from what is.
"If the Socialism is Authoritarian; if there are Governments armed with economic power as they are now with political power; if, in a word, we are to h...
"The aim of life is self-development. To realize one's nature perfectly - that is what each of us is here for.
"No better way is there to learn to love Nature than to understand Art. It dignifies every flower of the field. And, the boy who sees the thing of beau...
"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 S...
"For he who lives more lives than one more deaths than one must die.
"Life is never fair, and perhaps it is a good thing for most of us that it is not.
"Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead.