Quotes By Author: Oscar Wilde
“Punctuality is the thief of time”
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“Realize your youth while you have it. Don’t squander the gold of your days, listening to the tedious, trying to improve the hopeless failure, or giving away your life to the ignorant, the common, and the vulgar. These are the sickly aims, the false ideals, of our age. Live! Live the wonderful life that is in you! Let nothing be lost upon you. Be always searching for new sensations. Be afraid of nothing”
“With slouch and swing around the ringWe trod the Fools’ Parade!We did not care: we knew we wereThe Devils’ Own Brigade:And shaven head and feet of leadMake a merry masquerade.”
“I have been right, Basil, haven’t I, to take my love out of poetry, and to find my wife in Shakespeare’s plays? Lips that Shakespeare taught to speak have whispered their secret in my ear. I have had the arms of Rosalind around me, and kissed Juliet on the mouth.”
“The curves of your lips rewrite history.”
“Romantic literature is in effect imaginative lying.”
“Would you like to know the great drama of my life? It is that I have put my genius into my life…I have put only my talent into my works.”
“Religions die when they are proved to be true. Science is the record of dead religions.”
“My wallpaper and I are fighting a duel to the death. One or the other of us has to go.”
“The man who sees both sides of a question is a man who sees absolutely nothing.”
“Truth, in matters of religion, is simply the opinion that has survived.”
“Either this wallpaper goes, or I do.”
“All bad poetry springs from genuine feeling. To be natural is to be obvious, and to be obvious is to be inartistic.”
“There are two ways to dislike poetry: One is to dislike it; the other is to read Pope.”