Oscar Wilde Is Quotations

Death and vulgarity are the only two facts in the nineteenth century that one cannot explain away.

But beauty, real beauty, ends where an intellectual expression begins. Intellect is in itself a mode of exaggeration, and destroys the harmony of any face.

Life is a nightmare that prevents one from sleeping.

Love is not fashionable anymore; the poets have killed it.

Any place you love is the world to you”, explained the pensive Catherine Wheel, who had been attached to an old deal box in early life, and prided herself on her broken heart; “but love is not fashionable any more, the poets have killed it. They wrote so much about that nobody believed them, and I am not surprised. True love suffers, and is silent. I remember myself once- But it is no matter now. Romance is a thing of the past.

Love is easily killed.

What a silly thing love is! It is not half as useful as logic, for it does not prove anything and it is always telling one things that are not going to happen, and making one believe things that are not true.

Every one is worthy of love, except him who thinks that he is. Love is a sacrament that should be taken kneeling.

Love! What is love? It's nothing. It's just a word. It doesn't exist. Only pleasure is important.

Nothing should be out of the reach of hope. Life is a hope.

Any place you love is the world to you.

He made me see what Life is, and what Death signifies, and why Love is stronger than both.

Life is terrible. It rules us, we do not rule it.

Ah! somehow life is bigger after all Than any painted angel could we see The God that is within us!

The mystery of love is greater than the mystery of death.

Bad art is a great deal worse than no art at all.

The truth is never pure and rarely simple.

No crime is vulgar, but all vulgarity is crime.

The good we get from art is not what we learn from it; it is what we become through it.

The work of art is to dominate the spectator: the spectator is not to dominate the work of art.

Surely Love is a wonderful thing. It is more precious than emeralds, and dearer than fine opals. Pearls and pomegranates cannot buy it, nor is it set forth in the marketplace. It may not be purchased of the merchants, for can it be weighed out in the balance for gold.

The secret of life is in art.

The secret to life is to enjoy the pleasure of being terribly, terribly deceived.

Love does not traffic in a marketplace, nor use a huckster's scales. Its joy, like the joy of the intellect, is to feel itself alive. The aim of Love is to love: no more, and no less. You were my enemy: such an enemy as no man ever had. I had given you all my life, and to gratify the lowest and most contemptible of all human passions, hatred and vanity and greed, you had thrown it away. In less than three years you had entirely ruined me in every point of view. For my own sake there was nothing for me to do but to love you.

The only one you need in your life is that person who shows you he needs you in his.

Life is too short to be taken seriously.

We can have in life but one great experience at best, and the secret of life is to reproduce that experience as often as possible.

Life is one fool thing after another whereas love is two fool things after each other.

Any place that we love becomes our world.

Love is a sacrament that should be taken kneeling.

Vulgarity is simply the conduct of other people.

Life is a great disappointment.

To have ruined one's self over poetry is an honour

God is love, love is blind, Stevie Wonder is blind, therefore Stevie Wonder is God.

All love is true, but not all truth ... is love?

True love is just like regular love, but with more truth.

And if life be, as it surely is, a problem to me, I am no less a problem to life.

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

The aim of love is to love. No more, no less.

The proper school to learn art is not life but art

The English are always degrading truths into facts. When a truth becomes a fact it loses all its intellectual value.

Life is too short to be in a hurry.

Life is like a box of terrible analogies...

Finding the meaning of life is easy. Simply get a dictionary, go to the 'L' section, and find the word 'life.'

Art finds her own perfection within, and not outside of, herself. She is not to be judged by any external standard of resemblance.

To be in love is to surpass one's self.