Quote

He wanted to be where no one would know who he was. He wanted to escape from himself.

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
Escape
Wanted
Would

More quotes by Oscar Wilde

Image
The only excuse for making a useless thing is that one admires it intensely. All art is quite useless.
Oscar Wilde
Image
He wants to enslave you.' 'I shudder at the thought of being free.
Oscar Wilde
Image
Be yourself everyone else is taken.
Oscar Wilde
Image
The only beautiful things are the things that do not concern us.
Oscar Wilde
Image
When our eyes met, I felt that I was growing pale. A curious sensation of terror came over me. I knew that I had come face to face with some one whose mere personality was so fascinating that, if I allowed it to do so, it would absorb my whole nature, my whole soul, my very art itself.
Oscar Wilde
Image
Now produce your explanation and pray make it improbable.
Oscar Wilde
Image
Every thing to be true must become a religion.
Oscar Wilde
Image
Only mediocrities progress. An artist revolves in a cycle of masterpieces, the first of which is no less perfect than the last.
Oscar Wilde
Image
I often take exercise. Why only yesterday I had breakfast in bed.
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
Art, like Nature, has her monsters, things of bestial shape and with hideous voices.
Oscar Wilde
Image
There are many things that we would throw away if we were not afraid that others might pick them up.
Oscar Wilde
Image
The only thing I cannot resist is temptation.
Oscar Wilde
Image
The one charm of the past is that it is the past.
Oscar Wilde
Image
Im Krieg machen die Starken die Schwachen zu Sklaven, im Frieden machen die Reichen die Armen zu Sklaven.
Oscar Wilde
Image
An acquaintance that begins with a compliment is sure to develop into a real friendship.
Oscar Wilde
Image
Nowadays we are all of us so hard up that the only pleasant things to pay are compliments. They’re the only things we can pay.
Oscar Wilde
Image
God grant me the serenity to accept that people are ignorant, the courage to uphold the law when I'm hostile, & the wisdom to realize that murder is illegal.
Oscar Wilde
Image
Sympathy with joy intensifies the sum of sympathy in the world, sympathy with pain does not really diminish the amount of pain.
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