Oscar Wilde Quotes About Life
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Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead. The consciousness of loving and being loved brings a warmth and a richness to life that nothing else can bring.
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A poet can survive everything but a misprint.
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Discontent is the first step in the progress of a man or a nation.
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Political life at Washington is like political life in a suburban vestry.
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Anyone who lives within their means suffers from a lack of imagination.
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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.
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Life has been your art. You have set yourself to music. Your days are your sonnets.
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One should either be a work of art, or wear a work of art.
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A thing is not necessarily true because a man dies for it.
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Always borrow money from a pessimist. He won't expect it back.
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Never love anyone who treats you like you're ordinary.
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One's only real life is the life one never leads.
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Because sometimes you have to do something bad to do something good.
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When I was young I thought that money was the most important thing in life; now that I am old I know that it is.
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We live in an age when unnecessary things are our only necessities.
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Lord Darlington (LD): I think life too complex a thing to be settled by these hard and fast rules. Lady Windemere (LW): If we had 'hard-and-fast rules' we would find life much simpler. LD: You allow of no exceptions? LW: None! LD: Ah, what a fascinating Puritan you are, LW. LW: The adjective was unnecessary, LD.
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Every saint has a past, and every sinner has a future.
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Some cause happiness wherever they go; others, whenever they go.
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One should always play fairly when one has the winning cards.
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The man who says his wife can't take a joke, forgets that she took him.
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Religion is the fashionable substitute for belief.
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One can survive everything, nowadays, except death, and live down everything except a good reputation.
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Life is a great disappointment.
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The sure way of knowing nothing about life is to try to make oneself useful.
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Life is not complex. We are complex. Life is simple, and the simple thing is the right thing.
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It is always with the best intentions that the worst work is done.
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It is love, and not German philosophy, that is the true explanation of the world, whatever may be the explanation of the next.
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The mystery of love is greater than the mystery of death.
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I love acting. It is so much more real than life.
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Do you really think it is weakness that yields to temptation? I tell you that there are terrible temptations which it requires strength, strength and courage to yield to.
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