Oscar Wilde Tragedy Quotations

I suppose society is wonderfully delightful. To be in it is merely a bore. But to be out of it is simply a tragedy.

There is always something infinitely mean about other people's tragedies.

The tragedy of old age is not that one is old, but that one is young

For life is terribly deficient in form. Its catastrophes happen in the wrong way and to the wrong people. There is a grotesque horror about its comedies, and its tragedies seem to culminate in farce.

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.

The tragedy of the poor is that they can afford nothing but self denial.

Every woman becomes their mother. That's their tragedy. And no man becomes his. That's his tragedy.

It is sometimes said that the tragedy of an artist's life is that he cannot realise his ideal. But the true tragedy that dogs the steps of most artists is that they realise their ideal too absolutely. For, when the ideal is realised, it is robbed of its wonder and its mystery, and becomes simply a new starting-point for an ideal that is other than itself.

The trouble with the lower classes is that they lack the sense of tragedy given to them by the upper classes.

After playing Chopin, I feel as if I had been weeping over sins that I had never committed and mourning over tragedies that were not my own.