Oscar Wilde Quotes, People Quotes, Tragedy Quotes

For life is terribly deficient in form. Its catastrophes happen in the wrong way and to the wrong people. There is a grotesque horror about its comedies, and its tragedies seem to culminate in farce.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Oscar Wilde Quotes , People Quotes , Tragedy Quotes

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.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Oscar Wilde Quotes , Future Quotes , Artist Quotes

you will always love, and you will always be loved

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Oscar Wilde Quotes

The past could always be annihilated. Regret, denial, or forgetfulness could do that. But the future was inevitable.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Oscar Wilde Quotes , Regret Quotes , Past Quotes

The Bostonians take their learning too sadly: culture with them is an accomplishment rather than an atmosphere; their "Hub," as they call it, is the paradise of prigs.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Oscar Wilde Quotes , Accomplishment Quotes , Atmosphere Quotes

Chrysanthemums from gilded argosy Unload their gaudy senseless merchandise.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Oscar Wilde Quotes , Chrysanthemums Quotes , Gilded Quotes

She has form," he said to himself, as he walked away through the grove - "that cannot be denied to her; but has she got feeling? I am afraid not. In fact, she is like most artists; she is all style, without any sincerity. She would not sacrifice herself for others. She thinks merely of music, and everybody knows that arts are selfish. Still, it must be admitted that she has some beautiful notes in her voice. What a pity it is that they do not mean anything, or do any practical good.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Oscar Wilde Quotes , Beautiful Quotes , Art Quotes

He must have a truly romantic nature, for he weeps when there is nothing at all to weep about.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Oscar Wilde Quotes , Romance Quotes

Oh! I don't think I would like to catch a sensible man. I shouldn't know what to talk to him about.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Oscar Wilde Quotes , Men Quotes , Thinking Quotes

I never change, except in my affections.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Oscar Wilde Quotes , Affection Quotes

Why was I born with such contemporaries?

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Oscar Wilde Quotes , Sarcastic Quotes , Book Quotes

I feel that if I kept it secret it might grow in my mind (as poisonous things grow in the dark) and take its place with the other terrible thoughts that gnaw me

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Oscar Wilde Quotes , Dark Quotes , Secret Quotes

It is a great mistake for men to give up paying compliments, for when they give up saying what is charming, they give up thinking what is charming.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Oscar Wilde Quotes , Giving Up Quotes , Mistake Quotes

I did not think I should be ever loved: do you indeed Love me so much as now you say you do? Ask of the sea-bird if it loves the sea, Ask of the roses if they love the rain, Ask of the little lark, that will not sing Till day break, if it loves to see the day: And yet, these are but empty images, Mere shadows of my love, which is a fire So great that all the waters of the main Can not avail to quench it.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Oscar Wilde Quotes , Rain Quotes , Thinking Quotes

Flowers are as common in the country as people are in London.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Oscar Wilde Quotes , Country Quotes , Flower Quotes

People who count their chickens before they are hatched act very wisely because chickens run about so absurdly that it's impossible to count them accurately.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Oscar Wilde Quotes , Running Quotes , People Quotes

It is a vulgar error to suppose that America was ever discovered. It was merely detected.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Oscar Wilde Quotes , Errors Quotes , America Quotes

Give children beauty, not the record of bloody slaughters and barbarous brawls, as they call history, or of the latitude and longitude of places nobody cares to visit, as they call geography.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Oscar Wilde Quotes , Children Quotes , Giving Quotes

Though one can dine in New York, one could not dwell there.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Oscar Wilde Quotes , New York Quotes , Dine In Quotes

Yes, I am a thorough republican. No other form of government is so favorable to the growth of art. ...because of the importance it places on the individual, their liberty, self-expression, creativity, and personal responsibility.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Oscar Wilde Quotes , Art Quotes , Creativity Quotes