Quote

The world was my oyster but I used the wrong fork.

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
Forks
Etiquette
Manners
Wrong
Used
World
Oyster
Fork
Oysters

More quotes by Oscar Wilde

Image
Each little thing that we do passes into the great machine of life which may grind our virtues to powder and make them worthless, or transform our sins into elements of a new civilization, more marvelous and more splendid than any that has gone before.
Oscar Wilde
Image
She is all the great heroines of the world in one. She is more than an individual. I love her, and I must make her love me. I want to make Romeo jealous. I want the dead lovers of the world to hear our laughter, and grow sad. I want a breath of our passion to stir dust into consciousness, to wake their ashes into pain.
Oscar Wilde
Image
Even before I met you I was far from indifferent to you.
Oscar Wilde
Image
Who, being loved, is poor?
Oscar Wilde
Image
She is very clever, too clever for a woman. She lacks the indefinable charm of weakness.
Oscar Wilde
Image
A flower blossoms for its own joy.
Oscar Wilde
Image
Bore: a man who is never unintentionally rude.
Oscar Wilde
Image
We spend our days, each one of us, in looking for the secret of life. Well, the secret of life is in Art.
Oscar Wilde
Image
I really don't see anything romantic in proposing. It is very romantic to be in love. But there is nothing romantic about a definite proposal. Why, one may be accepted. One usually is, I believe. Then the excitement is all over. The very essence of romance is uncertainty. If ever I get married, I'll certainly try to forget the fact.
Oscar Wilde
Image
Men become old, but they never become good.
Oscar Wilde
Image
It is only very ugly or very beautiful women who ever hide their faces .
Oscar Wilde
Image
Oscar Wilde was suing the Marquis of Queensbury in 1895 for libel accusing Wilde of homosexuality Counsel: Have you ever adored a young man madly? Wilde: I have never given adoration to anyone except myself.
Oscar Wilde
Image
I was dominated, soul, brain, and power by you. You became to me the visible incarnation of that unseen ideal whose memory haunts us artists like an exquisite dream.
Oscar Wilde
Image
To lose one parent may be regarded as a misfortune to lose both looks like carelessness.
Oscar Wilde
Image
It is not the prisoners who need reformation, it is the prisons.
Oscar Wilde
Image
Concordantly, while your first question may be the most pertinent, you may or may not realize it is also the most irrelevant.
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
The weather still continues charming.
Oscar Wilde
Image
The only way to get rid of temptation is to yield to it... I can resist everything but temptation.
Oscar Wilde
Image
All art is immortal. For emotion for the sake of emotion is the aim of art, and emotion for the sake of action is the aim of life.
Oscar Wilde