Quote

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

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
Death
Must
Deaths
Hypocrisy
Dying
Dies
Lives

More quotes by Oscar Wilde

Image
They are the elect to whom beautiful things mean only Beauty.
Oscar Wilde
Image
He wants to enslave you.' 'I shudder at the thought of being free.
Oscar Wilde
Image
Memory... is the diary that we all carry about with us.
Oscar Wilde
Image
It is better to be beautiful than to be good. But... it is better to be good than to be ugly.
Oscar Wilde
Image
Diversity of opinion about a work of art shows that the work is new, complex, and vital.
Oscar Wilde
Image
The key to making up Oscar Wilde quotes is to add '~ Oscar Wilde' at the end.
Oscar Wilde
Image
The American father is never seen in London. He passes his life entirely in Wall Street and communicates with his family once a month by means of a telegram in cipher.
Oscar Wilde
Image
Oh, I don’t care about Jack. I don’t care for anybody in the whole world but you. I love you, Cecily. You will marry me, won’t you? You silly boy! Of course. Why, we have been engaged for the last three months. For the last three months?
Oscar Wilde
Image
People who count their chickens before they are hatched act very wisely because chickens run about so absurdly that it's impossible to count them accurately.
Oscar Wilde
Image
Shakespeare might have met Rosencrantz and Guildenstern in the white streets of London, or seen the serving-men of rival houses bite their thumbs at each other in the open square but Hamlet came out of his soul, and Romeo out of his passion.
Oscar Wilde
Image
Most people die of a sort of creeping common sense, and discover when it is too late that the only things one never regrets are one's mistakes.
Oscar Wilde
Image
A woman will flirt with anybody in the world as long as other people are looking on.
Oscar Wilde
Image
But we never get back our youth… The pulse of joy that beats in us at twenty becomes sluggish. Our limbs fail, our senses rot. We degenerate into hideous puppets, haunted by the memory of the passions of which we were too much afraid, and the exquisite temptations that we had not the courage to yield to.
Oscar Wilde
Image
Everyone is born a king, and most people die in exile.
Oscar Wilde
Image
I am afraid that we are beginning to be over-educated at least everybody who is incapable of learning has taken to teaching -that is really what our enthusiasm for education has come to.
Oscar Wilde
Image
He who stands most remote from his age is he who mirrors it best.
Oscar Wilde
Image
Football is all very well as a game for rough girls, but is hardly suitable for delicate boys.
Oscar Wilde
Image
The truth is rarely pure and never simple. Modern life would be very tedious if it were either, and modern literature a complete impossibility!
Oscar Wilde
Image
Please do not shoot the pianist. He is doing his best.
Oscar Wilde
Image
In fact, I am never wrong.
Oscar Wilde