Quotes from Oscar Wilde

The proper aim is to try and reconstruct society on such a basis that poverty will be impossible.

Nothing is so dangerous as being too modern one is apt to grow old-fashioned quite suddenly.

To get into the best society nowadays one has either to feed people amuse people or shock people.

The soul is born old but grows young. That is the comedy of life.

Everything popular is wrong.

It is that deep spiritual affection that is as pure as it is perfect. It is beautiful, it is fine, it is the noblest form of affection. There is nothing unnatural about it.

Rugby is a good occasion for keeping thirty bullies far from the center of the city.

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.

The stage is not merely the meeting place of all the arts, but is also the return of art to life.

Life is too short to be in a hurry.

One can live for years sometimes without living at all, and then all life comes crowding into one single hour.

I have pleasures, and passions, but the joy of life is gone. I am going under: the morgue yawns for me. I go and look at my zinc-bed there. After all, I had a wonderful life, which is, I fear, over.

The artistic life is a long, lovely suicide.

Whatever, in fact, is modern in our life we owe to the Greeks. Whatever is an anachronism is due to mediaevalism.

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.

Live the wonderful life that is in you.

I wrote when I did not know life; now that I do know the meaning of life, I have no more to write. Life cannot be written; life can only be lived.

Faithfulness is to the emotional life what consistency is to the life of the intellect - simply a confession of failures.

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

I am always astonishing myself. It is the only thing that makes life worth living.

Sin is the only real colour element left in modern life.

Spontaneity is a meticulously prepared art

Great passions are for the great of soul, and great events can be seen only by those who are on a level with them

A gentleman is one who never hurts anyone's feelings unintentionally.