Quotes from Oscar Wilde

A man who marries without knowing Bunbury has a very tedious time of it.

I like to do all the talking myself. It saves time, and prevents arguments.

All I want now is to look at life.

Imagination is a quality that was given to man compensate him from whats not. The sense of humor was given to console him from what is.

. . . try as we may we cannot get behind things to the reality. And the terrible reason may be that there is no reality in things apart from their appearances.

For he who lives more lives than one more deaths than one must die.

Men know life too early women know life too late.

The mark of all good art is not that the thing done is done exactly or finely, for machinery may do as much, but that it is worked out with the head and the workman's heart.

I would have a workshop attached to every school, and one hour a day given up to the teaching of simple decorative arts. It would be a golden hour to the children.

A dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight, and his punishment is that he sees the dawn before the rest of the world.

The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame.

Beauty has as many meanings as man has moods. Beauty is the symbol of symbols. Beauty reveals everything, because it expresses nothing. When it shows us itself, it shows us the whole fiery-coloured world.

The world is divided into two classes, those who believe the incredible, and those who do the improbable.

Literature must rest always on a principle, and temporal considerations are no principle at all. For, to the poet, all times and places are one; the stuff he deals with is eternal and eternally the same: no theme is inept, no past or present preferable.

Lord AUGUSTUS:(looking around) Time to educate yourself, I suppose. DUMBY: No, time to forget all I have learned. That is much more important.

Oh, why will parents always appear at the wrong time? Some extraordinary mistake in nature, I suppose.

Love will fly if held too lightly Love will die if held too tightly . . .

One should always be in love. That is the reason one should never marry.

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

Hearts Live By Being Wounded

Those whom the gods love grow young.

The curves of your lips rewrite history.

One should always be in love.

You love the beauty that you can see and touch and handle, the beauty that you can destroy, and do destroy, but of the unseen beauty of life, of the unseen beauty of a higher life, you know nothing.