Oscar Wilde Quotes (991 Quotes)
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- I have never met any really wicked person before. I feel rather frightened. I am so afraid he will look just like every one else.
(Oscar Wilde, "The Importance of Being Earnest")
- The simplicity of your character makes you exquisitely incomprehensible to me.
(Oscar Wilde, "The Importance of Being Earnest")
- Behind every exquisite thing that existed, there was something tragic.
(Oscar Wilde, "The Picture of Dorian Gray")
- Genie währt länger als Schönheit.
(Oscar Wilde, "The Picture of Dorian Gray")
- I didn't say I liked it Harry. I said it fascinated me. There is a great difference.
(Oscar Wilde, "The Picture of Dorian Gray")
- I worshipped you too much. I am punished for it. You worshipped yourself too much. We are both punished.
(Oscar Wilde, "The Picture of Dorian Gray")
- Jemanden zu beeinflussen bedeutet, ihm eine fremde Seele zu geben.
(Oscar Wilde, "The Picture of Dorian Gray")
- Pleasure is Nature's test, her sign of approval.
(Oscar Wilde, "The Picture of Dorian Gray")
- The one charm of the past is that it is the past.
(Oscar Wilde, "The Picture of Dorian Gray")
- There was a silence. The evening darkened in the room. Noiselessly and with silver feet the shadows crept in from the garden. The colours faded wearily out of things.
(Oscar Wilde, "The Picture of Dorian Gray")
- We live in an age that reads too much to be wise, and that thinks too much to be beautiful.
(Oscar Wilde, "The Picture of Dorian Gray")
- Yes, very sensible... People die of common sense, Dorian, one lost moment at a time. Life is a moment. There is no hereafter. So make it burn always with the hardest flame.
(Oscar Wilde, "The Picture of Dorian Gray")
- I know. In fact, I am never wrong.
(Oscar Wilde, "The Importance of Being Earnest")
- To be born, or at any rate bred, in a hand-bag, whether it had handles or not, seems to me to display a contempt for the ordinary decencies of family life that reminds one of the worst excesses of the French Revolution.
(Oscar Wilde, "The Importance of Being Earnest")
- Being adored is a nuisance. Women treat us just as humanity treats its gods. They worship us, and are always bothering us to do something for them.
(Oscar Wilde, "The Picture of Dorian Gray")
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