Oscar Wilde: Trending quotes
Oscar Wilde trending quotes. Read the latest quotes in collection“Nothing can cure the soul but the senses, just as nothing can cure the senses but the soul.”
Oscar Wilde book The Picture of Dorian Gray
Source: The Picture of Dorian Gray
Oscar Wilde book The Picture of Dorian Gray
Variant: One of the great secrets of life. Most people die of a sort of creeping common sense and discover too late that the only things one never regrets are one's mistakes.
Source: The Picture of Dorian Gray
A Few Maxims for the Instruction of the Over-Educated (1894)
Oscar Wilde book The Ballad of Reading Gaol
Pt. I, st. 7
The Ballad of Reading Gaol (1898)
Source: The Ballad Of Reading Gaol
“To lose one parent may be regarded as a misfortune … to lose both seems like carelessness.”
Oscar Wilde The Importance of Being Earnest
Lady Bracknell, Act I
The Importance of Being Earnest (1895)
Oscar Wilde book The Picture of Dorian Gray
Mrs. Arbuthnot http://books.google.com/books?id=RHkWAAAAYAAJ&q=%22Children+begin+by+loving+their+parents+after+a+time%22+%22they+judge+them+rarely+if+ever+do+they+forgive+them%22&pg=PA187#v=onepage, Act IV <br class="br">A Woman of No Importance (1893) <br class="br">Variant: Children begin by loving their parents; as they grow older they judge them; sometimes they forgive them. <br class="br">Source: The Picture of Dorian Gray
“After a good dinner one can forgive anybody, even one's own relations.”
Oscar Wilde A Woman of No Importance
Source: A Woman of No Importance
“Behind every exquisite thing that existed, there was something tragic.”
Oscar Wilde book The Picture of Dorian Gray
Source: The Picture of Dorian Gray
“Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months.”
Variant: Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six month.
“I am too fond of reading books to care to write them.”
Oscar Wilde book The Picture of Dorian Gray
Source: The Picture of Dorian Gray