Quotes By Author: Oscar Wilde

“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.”

“I had buried my romance in a bed of asphodel.”

“RequiescatTread lightly, she is nearUnder the snow,Speak gently, she can hearThe daisies grow.All her bright golden hairTarnished with rust,She that was young and fairFallen to dust.Lily-like, white as snow,She hardly knewShe was a woman, soSweetly she grew.Coffin-board, heavy stone,Lie on her breast,I vex my heart aloneShe is at rest.Peace, Peace, she cannot hearLyre or sonnet,All my life’s buried here,Heap earth upon it.”

“Christ did not die to save people, but to teach people how to save each other. This is, I have no doubt, a grave heresy, but it is also a fact.”

“For he who lives more lives than one more deaths than one must die.”