Quotes from Oscar Wilde

Biography lends to death a new terror.

What seems to us as bitter trials are often blessings in disguise

Success is a science; if you have the conditions, you get the result.

Like dear St. Francis of Assisi I am wedded to Poverty: but in my case the marriage is not a success.

One's only real life is the life one never leads.

Life is the art of being well deceived, and to succeed, it must be habitual and uninterrupted.

Misfortunes one can endure--they come from outside, they are accidents. But to suffer for one's own faults--ah!--there is the sting of life.

All trials are trials for one's life, just as all sentences are sentences of death.

I should have remembered that when one is going to lead an entirely new life, one requires regular and wholesome meals.

Yes, very sensible... People die of common sense, Dorian, one lost moment at a time. Life is a moment. There is no hereafter. So make it burn always with the hardest flame.

It is always with the best intentions that the worst work is done.

Every American bride is taken there [Niagara Falls], and the sight of the stupendous waterfall must be one of the earliest, if not the keenest, disappointments in American married life.

If you want to be a doormat you have to lay yourself down first.

Paradoxically though it may seem, it is none the less true that life imitates art far more than art imitates life.

We spend our days, each one of us, in looking for the secret of life. Well, the secret of life is in Art.

What is abnormal in Life stands in normal relations to Art. It is the only thing in Life that stands in normal relations to Art.

A live unexamined isn't worth living. I will add, "A life unlived isn't worth examining.

If one were to live his life fully and completely were to give form to every feeling, expression to every thought, reality to every dream.

I am sorry my life is so marred and maimed by extravagance. But I cannot live otherwise. I, at any rate, pay the penalty of suffering.

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

A well-tied tie is the first serious step in life.

To stake all one's life on a single moment, to risk everything on one throw, whether the stake be power or pleasure, I care not - there is no weakness in that.

I didn't have a life until I went up onstage.

Well, I know, of course, how important it is not to keep a business engagement, if one wants to retain any sense of the beauty of life.