Quote

Anyone who lives within their means suffers from a lack of imagination.

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
Mean
Imagination
Suffers
Life
Within
Savings
Anyone
Shopping
Suffering
Witty
Funny
Saving
Lives
Investment
Means
Lack
Money
Wealth
Wittiest

More quotes by Oscar Wilde

Image
Illusion is the first of all pleasures.
Oscar Wilde
Image
Men of thoughts should have nothing to do with action.
Oscar Wilde
Image
The secret of life is in art.
Oscar Wilde
Image
Oh! it is absurd to have a hard-and-fast rule about what one should read and what one shouldn't. More than half of modern culture depends on what one shouldn't read.
Oscar Wilde
Image
A beggar hates his benefactor as much as he hates himself for begging.
Oscar Wilde
Image
It's not whether you win or lose, it's how you place the blame.
Oscar Wilde
Image
What is termed Sin is an essential element of progress. Without it the world would stagnate, or grow old, or become colourless.
Oscar Wilde
Image
Cecily. This is no time for wearing the shallow mask of manners. When I see a spade I call it a spade. Gwendolen. [Satirically.] I am glad to say that I have never seen a spade. It is obvious that our social spheres have been widely different.
Oscar Wilde
Image
I would not a bit mind sleeping in the cool grass in summer, and when winter came on sheltering myself by the warm close-thatched rick, or under the penthouse of a great barn, provided I had love in my heart.
Oscar Wilde
Image
Bad artists always admire each others work.
Oscar Wilde
Image
Mr. Henry James writes fiction as if it were a painful duty.
Oscar Wilde
Image
There is only one real tragedy in a woman's life. The fact that her past is always her lover, and her future invariably her husband.
Oscar Wilde
Image
Beauty is the only thing that time cannot harm. Philosophies fall away like sand, and creeds follow one another like the withered leaves of Autumn but what is beautiful is a joy for all seasons and a possession for all eternity.
Oscar Wilde
Image
Those who are faithful know only the trivial side of love: it is the faithless who know love's tragedies.
Oscar Wilde
Image
I put all my genius into my life I put only my talent into my works.
Oscar Wilde
Image
I find him in the curves of certain lines, in the loveliness and subtleties of certain colours.
Oscar Wilde
Image
In fact, I am never wrong.
Oscar Wilde
Image
I am Irish by race but the English have condemned me to talk the language of Shakespeare.
Oscar Wilde
Image
It is chiefly, I regret to say, through journalism that such people find expression. I regret it because there is much to be said in favour of modern journalism. By giving us the opinions of the uneducated, it keeps us in touch with the ignorance of the community.
Oscar Wilde
Image
In England people actually try to be brilliant at breakfast. That is so dreadful of them! Only dull people are brilliant at breakfast.
Oscar Wilde