Oscar Wilde: Quotes about life (page 3)

“The secret to life is to enjoy the pleasure of being terribly, terribly deceived.”

“A poet can survive everything but a misprint.”

“One should absorb the colour of life, but one should never remember its details. Details are always vulgar.”

“It is not wise to find symbols in everything that one sees. It makes life too full of terrors.”

“I've now realized for the first time in my life the vital Importance of Being Earnest.”

“It's the spectator, and not life, that art really mirrors.”

“Lord Illingworth: The Book of Life begins with a man and a woman in a garden.
Mrs. Allonby: It ends with Revelations.”

“I don't play accurately--any one can play accurately--but I play with wonderful expression. As far as the piano is concerned, sentiment is my forte. I keep science for Life.”

“Life cheats us with shadows.
We ask it for pleasure.
It gives it to us with bitterness
and disappointment in its train.”

“An artist should create beautiful things, but should put nothing of his own life into them.”

“Experience is a question of instinct about life.”

“Literature always anticipates life. It doesn't copy it but moulds it to it's purpose.”

“How long could you love a woman who didn't love you, Cecil?
A woman who didn't love me? Oh, all my life!”

“Good taste is the excuse I've always given for leading such a bad life”

“Men know life too early. Women know life too late. That is the difference between men and women.”

“Jack: “Gwendolen, wait here for me.”
Gwendolen: “If you are not too long, I will wait here for you all my life.”

“To deny one's own experiences is to put a lie into the lips of one's own life. It is no less than a denial of the soul.”

“LORD ILLINGWORTH: The soul is born old but grows young. That is the comedy of life.
MRS ALLONBY: And the body is born young and grows old. That is life's tragedy.”

“Life is terrible. It rules us, we do not rule it.”