Oscar Wilde: Quotes about life

Oscar Wilde was Irish writer and poet. Explore interesting quotes on life.
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“He made me see what Life is, and what Death signifies, and why Love is stronger than both.”

Oscar Wilde book The Canterville Ghost

Source: The Canterville Ghost

“A poet can survive everything but a misprint.”

Oscar Wilde

&quot;The Children of the Poets,&quot; The Pall Mall Gazette http://www.online-literature.com/wilde/1307/ (October 14, 1886) <br class="br">Variant: One can survive everything nowadays except death.

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

Oscar Wilde Salome

Source: Salome

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

Oscar Wilde The Importance of Being Earnest

Jack, Act III
Source: The Importance of Being Earnest (1895)

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

Oscar Wilde

Source: Miscellaneous Aphorisms; The Soul of Man

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

Oscar Wilde A Woman of No Importance

Act I
A Woman of No Importance (1893)

“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.”

Oscar Wilde The Importance of Being Earnest

Source: The Importance of Being Earnest

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

Oscar Wilde

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

Oscar Wilde book The Picture of Dorian Gray

Source: The Picture of Dorian Gray

“Experience is a question of instinct about life.”

Oscar Wilde Lady Windermere's Fan

Source: Lady Windermere's Fan

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

Oscar Wilde Lady Windermere's Fan

Source: Lady Windermere's Fan

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

Oscar Wilde The Importance of Being Earnest

Source: The Importance of Being Earnest

“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.”

Oscar Wilde book De Profundis

Source: De Profundis

“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.”

Oscar Wilde A Woman of No Importance

Source: A Woman of No Importance

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

Oscar Wilde Lady Windermere's Fan

Source: Lady Windermere's Fan