Oscar Wilde

Oscar Wilde

"It is much more easy to have sympathy with suffering than it is to have sympathy with thought."
494 Quotes
"It is much more easy to have sympathy with suffering than it is to have sympathy with thought."
Oscar Wilde
"To become a spectator of one's own life is to escape the suffering of life."
Oscar Wilde
"No man is rich enough to buy back his past."
Oscar Wilde
"One's past is what one is. It is the only way by which people should be judged."
Oscar Wilde
"Why had it been left for a stranger to reveal him to himself?"
Oscar Wilde
"Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask and he'll tell you the truth"
Oscar Wilde
"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 you want to be, if you live what some might call the dynamic life but what I will call the artistic life, if each day you are unsure of who you are and what you know you will never become anything, and that is your reward."
Oscar Wilde
"The smallest act of kindness is worth more than the grandest intention."
Oscar Wilde
"The one charm about the past is that it is the past."
Oscar Wilde
"Are ALL men bad?Oh, all of them, my dear, all of them, without any exception. And they never grow any better. Men become old, but they never become good.."
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
"“Those who find ugly meanings in beautiful things are corrupt without being charming. This is a fault. Those who find beautiful meanings in beautiful things are the cultivated. For these there is hope. They are the elect to whom beautiful things mean only Beauty. There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written, or badly written. That is all.”"
Oscar Wilde The Picture of Dorian Gray
"“Never marry at all, Dorian. Men marry because they are tired, women, because they are curious: both are disappointed.”"
Oscar Wilde The Picture of Dorian Gray
"“The very essence of romance is uncertainty.”"
Oscar Wilde The Importance of Being Earnest and Other Plays
"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
"“The truth is rarely pure and never simple.”"
Oscar Wilde The Importance of Being Earnest
"“A thing is not necessarily true because a man dies for it.”"
Oscar Wilde
"“Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.”"
Oscar Wilde
"Everybody who is incapable of learning has taken to teaching."
Oscar Wilde
"“I think God, in creating man, somewhat overestimated his ability.”"
Oscar Wilde
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