Oscar Wilde: Trending quotes (page 13)

“Pleasures may turn a heart to stone, riches may make it callous, but sorrows cannot break it. Hearts live by being wounded.”

“Nothing annoys people so much as not receiving invitations.”

“I really don't see what is so romantic about proposing. One may be accepted - one usually is, I believe - and then the excitement is ended. The very essence of romance is uncertainty.”

“How pale the Princess is! Never have I seen her so pale. She is like the shadow of a white rose in a mirror of silver.”

“We should treat all the trivial things of life seriously, and all the serious things of life with sincere and studied triviality.”

“The only excuse for making a useless thing is that one admires it intensely. All art is quite useless.”

“If they know nothing of victory, they are at least spared the knowledge of defeat.”

“sorrow… is a wound that bleeds when any hand but that of
love touches it”

“Nowadays we are all of us so hard up that the only pleasant things to pay are compliments. They're the only things we can pay.”

“My experience is that as soon as people are old enough to know better, they don't know anything at all.”

“Don't squander the gold of your days, listening to the tedious, trying to improve the hopeless failure, or giving away your life to the ignorant, the common, and the vulgar”

“He lives the poetry that he cannot write. The others write the poetry that they dare not realize”

“Never mind what I say. I am always saying what I shouldn't say. In fact, I usually say what I really think. A great mistake nowadays. It makes one so liable to be misunderstood.”

“It is sweet to dance to violins
When Love and Life are fair:
To dance to flutes, to dance to lutes
Is delicate and rare:
But it is not sweet with nimble feet
To dance upon the air!”

“Come, dear, [Gwendolen rises] we have already missed five, if not six, trains. To miss any more might expose us to comment on the platform.”

“Many people become bankrupt through having invested too heavily in the prose of life. To have ruined one's self over poetry is an honor.”

“He hadn’t a single redeeming vice.”

“In your soul are infinitely precious things that cannot be taken from you”

“Life is not governed by will or intention. Life is a question of nerves, and fibres, and slowly built-up cells in which thought hides itself and passion has its dreams.”