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Oscar Wilde

Oscar Wilde

Irish writer

Lived from: 1854 - 1900

Category: Writers (Contemporary) Country: FlagIreland

Born: 16 october 1854 Died: 30 november 1900

  • My experience is that as soon as people are old enough to know better, they don't know anything at all.
  • All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That's his.
  • When a man has once loved a woman, he will do anything for her, except continue to love her.
  • When one is in love, one always begins by deceiving one's self, and one always ends by deceiving others. That is what the world calls a romance.
  • What a fuss people make about fidelity! Why, even in love it is purely a question for physiology. It has nothing to do with our own will. Young men want to be faithful, and are not; old men want to be faithless, and cannot: that is all one can say.
  • I never saw a man who looked with such a wistful eye upon that little tent of blue which prisoners call the sky.
  • To get back my youth I would do anything in the world, except take exercise, get up early, or be respectable.
  • On an occasion of this kind it becomes more than a moral duty to speak one's mind. It becomes a pleasure.
  • Like two doomed ships that pass in storm we had crossed each other's way: but we made no sign, we said no word, we had no word to say.
  • If one tells the truth, one is sure, sooner or later, to be found out.
  • The past is of no importance. The present is of no importance. It is with the future that we have to deal. For the past is what man should not have been. The present is what man ought not to be. The future is what artists are.
  • They are horribly tedious when they are good husbands, and abominably conceited when they are not.
  • The youth of America is their oldest tradition. It has been going on now for three hundred years.
  • In a very ugly and sensible age, the arts borrow, not from life, but from each other.
  • Music makes one feel so romantic - at least it always gets on one's nerves - which is the same thing nowadays.
  • There is something terribly morbid in the modern sympathy with pain. One should sympathize with the color, the beauty, the joy of life. The less said about life's sores the better.
  • When I was young I used to think that money was the most important thing in life; now that I am old, I know it is.
  • Mere color, unspoiled by meaning, and unallied with definite form, can speak to the soul in a thousand different ways.
  • We who live in prison, and in whose lives there is no event but sorrow, have to measure time by throbs of pain, and the record of bitter moments.
  • It is perfectly monstrous the way people go about nowadays saying things against one, behind one's back, that are absolutely and entirely true.
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  • Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love, but no friendship.
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  • A man can be happy with any woman as long as he does not love her.
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  • Friendship is far more tragic than love. It lasts longer.
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  • He had that curious love of green, which in individuals is always the sign of a subtle artistic temperament, and in nations is said to denote a laxity, if not a decadence of morals.
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  • I love acting. It is so much more real than life.
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  • I see when men love women. They give them but a little of their lives. But women when they love give everything.
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  • Just as those who do not love Plato more than truth cannot pass beyond the threshold of Academe, so those who do not love beauty more than truth never know the inmost shrine of art.
    The Decay of Lying (1889)
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  • Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead.
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  • Men always want to be a woman's first love. Women have a more subtle instinct: What they like is to be a man's last romance.
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  • Never love anyone who treats you like you're ordinary.
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  • One should always be in love. That is the reason one should never marry.
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  • People who love only once in their lives are shallow people. What they call their loyalty, and their fidelity, I call either the lethargy of custom or their lack of imagination. Faithfulness is to the emotional life what consistency is to the life of the intellect - simply a confession of failures.
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  • Those who are faithful know only the trivial side of love: it is the faithless who know love's tragedies.
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  • Those whom the gods love grow young.
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  • To love oneself is the beginning of a life long romance.
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  • What a fuss people make about fidelity! Why, even in love it is purely a question for physiology. It has nothing to do with our own will. Young men want to be faithful, and are not; old men want to be faithless, and cannot: that is all one can say.
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  • What of Art?
    - It is a malady.
    Love?
    - An Illusion.
    Religion?
    - The fashionable substitute for Belief.
    You are a sceptic.
    - Never! Scepticism is the beginning of Faith.
    What are you?
    - To define is to limit.
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  • When a man has once loved a woman, he will do anything for her, except continue to love her.
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  • When Christ says, ‘Forgive your enemies,’ it is not for the sake of the enemy, but for one’s own sake that he says so, and because love is more beautiful than hate.
    The Profundis
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  • When one is in love, one always begins by deceiving one's self, and one always ends by deceiving others. That is what the world calls a romance.
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What are the most famous quotes from Oscar Wilde?

The two most famous quotes from Oscar Wilde are:

  • "Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love, but no friendship."
  • "A man can be happy with any woman as long as he does not love her."

When did Oscar Wilde live?

Oscar Wilde was born in 1854 and died in the year 1900.