Quotes from Oscar Wilde

It is what we fear that happens to us.

The suspense is terrible. I hope it will last.

To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.

We all live in the gutter but some of us are looking up at the stars.

If one plays good music, people don't listen and if one plays bad music people don't talk.

The world is a stage, but the play is badly cast.

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

Anybody can write a three-volume novel. It merely requires a complete ignorance of both life and literature.

It often happens that the real tragedies of life occur in such an inartistic manner that they hurt us by their crude violence, their absolute incoherence, their absurd want of meaning, their entire lack of style.

The secret of life is in art.

One's real life is so often the life that one does not lead.

He lives the poetry that he cannot write. The others write the poetry that they dare not realise.

Life is one fool thing after another whereas love is two fool things after each other.

The only way a woman can ever reform her husband is by boring him so completely that he loses all possible interest in life.

It is the spectator, and not life, that art really mirrors.

I never approve, or disapprove, of anything now. It is an absurd attitude to take towards life. We are not sent into the world to air our moral prejudices. I never take any notice of what common people say, and I never interfere with what charming pe.

There is only one real tragedy in a woman's life. The fact that her past is always her lover, and her future invariably her husband.

Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead. The consciousness of loving and being loved brings a warmth and richness to life that nothing else can bring.

The soul is born old but grows young. That is the comedy of life. And the body is born young and grows old. That is life's tragedy.

The supreme object of life is to live. Few people live. It is true life only to realize one's own perfection, to make one's every dream a reality.

A man's very highest moment is, I have no doubt at all, when he kneels in the dust, and beats his breast, and tells all the sins of his life.

We can have in life but one great experience at best, and the secret of life is to reproduce that experience as often as possible.

Death must be so beautiful. To lie in the soft brown earth, with the grasses waving above one's head, and listen to silence. To have no yesterday, and no to-morrow. To forget time, to forgive life, to be at peace.

One's real life is often the life that one does not lead.