Oscar Wilde Quotes

Irish poet, playwright, and aesthete (1854-1900)

Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde (16 October 1854 – 30 November 1900) was an Irish dramatist, essayist, novelist and poet.

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Pen Names: С.3.3. • Sebastian Melmoth

Birth Name: Oscar Fingal O’Flahertie Wills Wilde

Alternative Names: Oscar O'Flahertie Wills Wilde • Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde • Oscar Fingal O'Fflahertie Wills Wilde • Oscar O'Fflahertie Wills Wilde

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Every woman is a rebel.

Only dull people are brilliant at breakfast.

Nowadays most people die of a sort of creeping common sense, and discover when it is too late that the only things one never regrets are one's mistakes.

A bore is someone who deprives you of solitude without providing you with company.

To get back my youth I would do anything in the world, except take exercise, get up early, or be respectable.

Nothing can cure the soul but the senses, just as nothing can cure the senses but the soul.

Words! Mere words! How terrible they were! How clear, and vivid, and cruel! One could not escape from them. And yet what a subtle magic there was in them! They seemed to be able to give a plastic form to formless things, and to have a music of their own as sweet as that of viol or of lute. Mere words! Was there anything so real as words?

Every portrait that is painted with feeling is a portrait of the artist, not of the sitter.

There are only two kinds of people who are really fascinating: people who know absolutely everything, and people who know absolutely nothing.

The world is changed because you are made of ivory and gold. The curves of your lips rewrite history.

Everything in moderation, including moderation.

How can a woman be expected to be happy with a man who insists on treating her as if she were a perfectly normal human being

If you are not long, I will wait for you all my life.

The suspense is terrible. I hope it will last.

There are moments when one has to choose between living one's own life, fully, entirely, completely-or dragging out some false, shallow, degrading existence that the world in its hypocrisy demands.