Quotes By Author: Oscar Wilde

“LADY BRACKNELLTo speak frankly, I am not in favour of long engagements. They give people the opportunity of finding out each other’s character before marriage, which I think is never advisable.”

“You like every one; that is to say, you are indifferent to every one.”

“The reason we all like to think so well of others is that we are all afraid for ourselves. The basis of optimism is sheer terror.”

“Never marry at all, Dorian. Men marry because they are tired, women, because they are curious: both are disappointed.”

“Punctuality is the thief of time.”

“Time is a waste of money.”

“The one duty we owe to history is to rewrite it.”

“Behind the perfection of a man’s style, must lie the passion of a man’s soul.”

“We live in a world when men treat art as if it were meant to be a form of autobiography. We have lost the abstract sense of beauty.”

“The mimicry of passion is the most intolerable of all poses.”

“I am less to you than your ivory Hermes or your silver Faun. You will like them always. How long will you like me? Till I have my first wrinkle, I suppose. I know, now, that when one loses one’s good looks, whatever they may be, one loses everything. Your picture has taught me that. Lord Henry Wotton is perfectly right. Youth is the only thing worth having. When I find that I am growing old, I shall kill myself.”

“To have ruined one’s self over poetry is an honor”

“It would kill the past, and when that was dead, he would be free.”

“something was dead in each of us,and what was dead was hope.”

“He is fairer than the morning star, and whiter than the moon. For his body I would give my soul, and for his love I would surrender heaven.”