Oscar Wilde: Trending quotes (page 25)

“I analyzed you, though you did not adore me.”

“I hope, Cecily, I shall not offend you if I state quite frankly and openly that you seem to me to be in every way the visible personification of absolute perfection.”

“ever since I met you I have admired you more than any girl… I have ever met since… I met you.”

“There are two ways to dislike poetry: One is to dislike it; the other is to read Pope.”

“And all the woe that moved him so
That he gave that bitter cry
the wild regrets, and the bloody sweats
None knew so well as I:
For he who lives more lives than one
More deaths than one must die.”

“Memory is the diary that chronicles things that never happened or couldn't possibly have happened.”

“With age comes wisdom, but sometimes age comes alone.”

“Nothing makes one so vain as being told that one is a sinner.”

“All bad poetry springs from genuine feeling. To be natural is to be obvious, and to be obvious is to be inartistic.”

“I think you are wrong, Basil, but I won't argue with you. It is only the intellectually lost who ever argue.”

“She lives the poetry she cannot write.”

“When one has weighed the sun in the balance, and measured the steps of the moon, and mapped out the seven heavens, there still remains oneself. Who can calculate the orbit of his own soul?”

“Every one is worthy of love, except him who thinks that he is. Love is a
sacrament that should be taken kneeling.”

“And with tears of blood he cleansed the hand,
The hand that held the steel:
For only blood can wipe out blood,
And only tears can heal”

“It is awfully hard work doing nothing. However, I don't mind hard work where there is no definite object of any kind. -Algernon”

“Her trust makes me faithful, her belief makes me good.”

“Well I won't argue about the matter. You always want to argue about things.
That is exactly what things were originally made for.”

“Gwendolen, it is a terrible thing for a man to find out suddenly that all his life he has been speaking nothing but the truth. Can you forgive me?”

“I think it's very healthy to spend time alone. You need to know how to be alone and not be defined by another person.”