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Love5 quotes
It is not the perfect, but the imperfect, who have need of love. — Oscar Wilde · 1895It is difficult not to be unjust to what one loves. — Oscar Wilde · 1891There is always something ridiculous about the passions of people whom one has ceased to love. — Oscar Wilde · 1890Those who are faithful know only the pleasures of love: it is the faithless who know love's tragedies. — Oscar Wilde · 1890What a silly thing Love is!...It is not half as useful as Logic, for it does not prove anything, and it is always telling one of things that are not going to happen, and making one believe things that are not true. — Oscar Wilde · 1888Men and women5 quotes
Men marry because they are tired; women, because they are curious: both are disappointed. — Oscar Wilde · 1890Women are meant to be loved, not to be understood. — Oscar Wilde · 1891Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love, but no friendship. — Oscar Wilde · 1892Men always want to be a woman's first love. That is their clumsy vanity. We women have a more subtle instinct about things. What we like is to be a man's last romance. — Oscar Wilde · 1893Most men and women are forced to perform parts for which they have no qualifications. — Oscar Wilde · 1891The human condition5 quotes
We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars. — Oscar Wilde · 1892One can live for years sometimes, without living at all, and then all life comes crowding into a single hour. — Oscar Wilde · 1880To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all. — Oscar Wilde · 1891The world has always laughed at its own tragedies, that being the only way in which it has been able to bear them. — Oscar Wilde · 1893It is because Humanity has never known where it was going that it has been able to find its way. — Oscar Wilde · 1891Art4 quotes
It is only an auctioneer who can equally and impartially admire all schools of Art. — Oscar Wilde · 1891No great artist ever sees things as they really are. If he did, he would cease to be an artist. — Oscar Wilde · 1891The true artist is a man who believes absolutely in himself, because he is absolutely himself. — Oscar Wilde · 1891It is through Art, and through Art only, that we can realize our perfection; through Art, and through Art only, that we can shield ourselves from the sordid perils of actual existence. — Oscar Wilde · 1891Beauty3 quotes
The curves of your lips rewrite history. — Oscar Wilde · 1891Genius lasts longer than Beauty. — Oscar Wilde · 1890Beauty is a form of genius,—is higher, indeed, than Genius, as it needs no explanation. It is one of the great facts of the world, like sunlight, or spring-time, or the reflection in dark waters of that silver shell, we call the moon. It cannot be questioned. It has its divine right of sovereignty. It makes princes of those who have it. — Oscar Wilde · 1890Friendship3 quotes
Generosity is the essence of friendship. — Oscar Wilde · 1888Anybody can sympathise with the sufferings of a friend, but it requires a very fine nature...to sympathise with a friend's success. — Oscar Wilde · 1891Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love, but no friendship. — Oscar Wilde · 1892Youth3 quotes
The tragedy of old age is not that one is old, but that one is young. — Oscar Wilde · 1890To get back my youth I would do anything in the world, except take exercise, get up early, or be respectable. — Oscar Wilde · 1890Realize your youth while you have it... Live! Live the wonderful life that is in you! Let nothing be lost upon you. Be always searching for new sensations. Be afraid of nothing. — Oscar Wilde · 1890Artistic vision2 quotes
No great artist ever sees things as they really are. If he did, he would cease to be an artist. — Oscar Wilde · 1891The true artist is a man who believes absolutely in himself, because he is absolutely himself. — Oscar Wilde · 1891Artists2 quotes
No great artist ever sees things as they really are. If he did, he would cease to be an artist. — Oscar Wilde · 1891The true artist is a man who believes absolutely in himself, because he is absolutely himself. — Oscar Wilde · 1891Carpe diem2 quotes
To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all. — Oscar Wilde · 1891Realize your youth while you have it... Live! Live the wonderful life that is in you! Let nothing be lost upon you. Be always searching for new sensations. Be afraid of nothing. — Oscar Wilde · 1890Dangers of love2 quotes
Those who are faithful know only the pleasures of love: it is the faithless who know love's tragedies. — Oscar Wilde · 1890There is one thing worse than an absolutely loveless marriage. A marriage in which there is love, but on one side only. — Oscar Wilde · 1895Friends2 quotes
Anybody can sympathise with the sufferings of a friend, but it requires a very fine nature...to sympathise with a friend's success. — Oscar Wilde · 1891One has a right to judge of a man by the effect he has over his friends. — Oscar Wilde · 1891Gender relations2 quotes
Men marry because they are tired; women, because they are curious: both are disappointed. — Oscar Wilde · 1890Women are meant to be loved, not to be understood. — Oscar Wilde · 1891Genius2 quotes
Genius lasts longer than Beauty. — Oscar Wilde · 1890Beauty is a form of genius,—is higher, indeed, than Genius, as it needs no explanation. It is one of the great facts of the world, like sunlight, or spring-time, or the reflection in dark waters of that silver shell, we call the moon. It cannot be questioned. It has its divine right of sovereignty. It makes princes of those who have it. — Oscar Wilde · 1890Life2 quotes
One can live for years sometimes, without living at all, and then all life comes crowding into a single hour. — Oscar Wilde · 1880To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all. — Oscar Wilde · 1891Living life to the fullest2 quotes
To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all. — Oscar Wilde · 1891Realize your youth while you have it... Live! Live the wonderful life that is in you! Let nothing be lost upon you. Be always searching for new sensations. Be afraid of nothing. — Oscar Wilde · 1890Marriage2 quotes
Men marry because they are tired; women, because they are curious: both are disappointed. — Oscar Wilde · 1890There is one thing worse than an absolutely loveless marriage. A marriage in which there is love, but on one side only. — Oscar Wilde · 1895Morality2 quotes
The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame. — Oscar Wilde · 1891Starvation, and not sin, is the parent of modern crime. — Oscar Wilde · 1891Progress2 quotes
Discontent is the first step in the progress of a man or a nation. — Oscar Wilde · 1893It is because Humanity has never known where it was going that it has been able to find its way. — Oscar Wilde · 1891Resisting temptation2 quotes
The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it. — Oscar Wilde · 1890Anybody can be good in the country. — Oscar Wilde · 1890Temptation2 quotes
The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it. — Oscar Wilde · 1890Anybody can be good in the country. — Oscar Wilde · 1890Aging1 quote
Genius lasts longer than Beauty. — Oscar Wilde · 1890Alienation from oneself1 quote
Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation. — Oscar Wilde · 1897Art and money1 quote
It is only an auctioneer who can equally and impartially admire all schools of Art. — Oscar Wilde · 1891Art market1 quote
It is only an auctioneer who can equally and impartially admire all schools of Art. — Oscar Wilde · 1891Authenticity1 quote
The true artist is a man who believes absolutely in himself, because he is absolutely himself. — Oscar Wilde · 1891Avant garde1 quote
A dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight, and his punishment is that he sees the dawn before the rest of the world. — Oscar Wilde · 1891Beauty fades1 quote
Genius lasts longer than Beauty. — Oscar Wilde · 1890Betrayal1 quote
Those who are faithful know only the pleasures of love: it is the faithless who know love's tragedies. — Oscar Wilde · 1890Books1 quote
The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame. — Oscar Wilde · 1891