Quote

A dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight, and his punishment is that he sees the dawn before the rest of the world.

Oscar Wilde

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Oscar Wilde
Age: 46 †
Born: 1854
Born: October 16
Died: 1900
Died: November 30
Author
Essayist
Journalist
Novelist
Opinion Journalist
Playwright
Poet
Prosaist
Short Story Writer
Writer
Dublin city
Oscar O'Flahertie Wills Wilde
Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde
Seeing
Moonlight
Inspirational
Dreamer
Night
Dawn
Dream
Punishment
Find
Sees
Way
Findings
Thinking
Rest
World
Vision

More quotes by Oscar Wilde

Image
The proper school to learn art is not life but art
Oscar Wilde
Image
A man who is master of himself can end a sorrow as easily as he can invent a pleasure.
Oscar Wilde
Image
Wisdom comes with winters
Oscar Wilde
Image
Poets know how useful passion is for publication. Nowadays a broken heart will run to many editions.
Oscar Wilde
Image
When good Americans die, they go to Paris Where do bad Americans go? They stay in America
Oscar Wilde
Image
And if life be, as it surely is, a problem to me, I am no less a problem to life.
Oscar Wilde
Image
Sometime you will find, even as I have found, that there is no such thing as romantic experience there are romantic memories, and there is the desire of romance- that is all. Our most fiery moments of ecstasy are merely shadows of what somewhere else we have felt, or of what we long someday to feel
Oscar Wilde
Image
What a fuss people make about fidelity! exclaimed Lord Henry. Why, even in love it is purely a question for physiology. It has nothing to do with our own will. Young men want to be faithful, and are not old men want to be faithless, and cannot: that is all one can say.
Oscar Wilde
Image
In married life three is company and two none.
Oscar Wilde
Image
When liberty comes with hands dabbled in blood it is hard to shake hands with her.
Oscar Wilde
Image
The growing influence of women is the one reassuring thing in our political life.
Oscar Wilde
Image
A red rose is not selfish because it wants to be a red rose. It would be horribly selfish if it wanted all the other flowers in the garden to be both red and roses.
Oscar Wilde
Image
Men know life too early. Women know life too late. That is the difference between men and women.
Oscar Wilde
Image
The moon in her chariot of pearl
Oscar Wilde
Image
The only way a woman can ever reform a man is by boring him so completely that he loses all possible interest in life.
Oscar Wilde
Image
I summed up all systems in a phrase, and all existence in an epigram.
Oscar Wilde
Image
What are American dry-goods? asked the duchess, raising her large hands in wonder and accentuating the verb. American novels, answered Lord Henry.
Oscar Wilde
Image
As yet, Bernard Shaw hasn't become prominent enough to have any enemies, but none of his friends like him.
Oscar Wilde
Image
But then one regrets the loss even of one's worst habits. Perhaps one regrets them the most. They are such an essential part of one's personality.
Oscar Wilde
Image
The only way to get rid of temptation is to yield to it... I can resist everything but temptation.
Oscar Wilde