Quote

sorrow...is a wound that bleeds when any hand but that of love touches it

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
Wound
Wounds
Sorrow
Hand
Hands
Love
Bleeds
Touches

More quotes by Oscar Wilde

Image
It is a sad truth, but we have lost the faculty of giving lovely names to things. Names are everything. I never quarrel with actions. My one quarrel is with words. The man who could call a spade a spade should be compelled to use one. It is the only thing he is fit for.
Oscar Wilde
Image
I have learned this: it is not what one does that is wrong, but what one becomes as a consequence of it.
Oscar Wilde
Image
Who is that man over there? I don't know him. What is he doing? Is he a conspirator? Have you searched him? Give him till tomorrow to confess, then hang him! -- hang him!
Oscar Wilde
Image
In fact, the whole of Japan is a pure invention. There is no such country, there are no such people.... The Japanese people are ... simply a mode of style, an exquisite fancy of art.
Oscar Wilde
Image
Be yourself, because others are already taken.
Oscar Wilde
Image
The beautiful, passionate, ruined South, the land of magnolias and music, of roses and romance . . . living on the memory of crushing defeats
Oscar Wilde
Image
Sin is a thing that writes itself across a man's face. It cannot be concealed.
Oscar Wilde
Image
The modern sympathy with invalids is morbid. Illness of any kind is hardly a thing to be encouraged in others.
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
Even now I cannot help feeling that it is a mistake to think that the passion one feels in creation is ever really shown in the work one creates.
Oscar Wilde
Image
Most men and women are forced to perform parts for which they have no qualification.
Oscar Wilde
Image
Foxhunting... the unspeakable pursuing the inedible.
Oscar Wilde
Image
America is one long expectoration.
Oscar Wilde
Image
The artist is the creator of beautiful things. To reveal art and conceal the artist is art's aim. The critic is he who can translate into another manner or a new material his impression of beautiful things.
Oscar Wilde
Image
Looking good and dressing well is a necessity. Having a purpose in life is not.
Oscar Wilde
Image
Who am I to tamper with a masterpiece?
Oscar Wilde
Image
Art creates an incomparable and unique effect, and, having done so, passes on to other things. Nature, upon the other hand, forgetting that that imitation can be made the sincerest form of insult, keeps on repeating this effect until we all become absolutely wearied of it.
Oscar Wilde
Image
I won't belong to a club that accepts me as a member
Oscar Wilde
Image
It is a very sad thing that nowadays there is so little useless information.
Oscar Wilde
Image
I must say to myself that I ruined myself, and that nobody great or small can be ruined except by his own hand. I am quite ready to say so. ... Terrible as was what the world did to me, what I did to myself was far more terrible still.
Oscar Wilde