Oscar Wilde Doe Quotations

Just because a man has died for it, does not make it true.

I love scrapes. They are the only things that are never serious." "Oh, that's nonsense, Algy. You never talk anything but nonsense." "Nobody ever does.

I am a born antinomian. I am one of those who are made for exceptions, not for laws. But while I see that there is nothing wrong in what one does, I see that there is something wrong in what one becomes.

How does one cure the soul? Through the senses

I am jealous of everything whose beauty does not die.

I am jealous of everything whose beauty does not die. I am jealous of the portrait you have painted of me. Why should it keep what I must lose? Every moment that passes takes something from me and gives something to it. Oh, if it were only the other way! If the picture could change, and I could be always what I am now! Why did you paint it? It will mock me some day—mock me horribly!

I don’t regret for a single moment having lived for pleasure. I did it to the full, as one should do everything that one does. There was no pleasure I did not experience.

They are always asking a writer why he does not write like somebody else, or a painter why he does not paint like somebody else, quite oblivious of the fact that if either of them did anything of the kind he would cease to be an artist.

Any map of the world that does not include Utopia is not even worth glancing at.

One does not see anything until one sees its beauty.

I have learned this: it is not what one does that is wrong, but what one becomes as a consequence of it.

Travel ennobles the spirit and does away with our prejudices.

I hope you hair curls naturally, does it? Yes, darling, with a little help from others.

What fire does not destroy, it hardens

You can't possibly ask me to go without having some dinner. It's absurd. I never go without my dinner. No one ever does, except vegetarians and people like that.

I am very glad I have travelled. Travel improves the mind wonderfully, and does away with all one's prejudices.

The truth about the life of a man is not what he does, but the legend which he creates around himself.

The great poet is always a seer, seeing less with the eyes of the body than he does with the eyes of the mind.

You are young. No hungry generations tread you down. The past does not mock you with the ruins of a beauty the secret of whose creation you have lost

There are works which wait, and which one does not understand for a long time; the reason is that they bring answers to questions which have not yet been raised; for the question often arrives a terribly long time after the answer.

Ah, on what little things does happiness depend.

And certainly once a man begins to neglect his domestic duties he becomes painfully effeminate, does he not? And I don't like that. It makes men so very attractive.

A man who moralizes is a hypocrite, and a woman who does so is invariably plain.