Quote

Even before I met you I was far from indifferent to you.

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
Platonic
Indifferent
Mets
Even

More quotes by Oscar Wilde

Image
Don't imagine that your perfection lies in accumulating or possessing external things. Your affection is inside of you.
Oscar Wilde
Image
A mutual misunderstanding.
Oscar Wilde
Image
If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all.
Oscar Wilde
Image
To be born, or at any rate bred, in a hand-bag, whether it had handles or not, seems to me to display a contempt for the ordinary decencies of family life that reminds one of the worst excesses of the French Revolution.
Oscar Wilde
Image
I do not approve of anything which tampers with natural ignorance
Oscar Wilde
Image
The one charm about the past is that it is the past. But women never know when the curtain has fallen.
Oscar Wilde
Image
Whatever, in fact, is modern in our life we owe to the Greeks. Whatever is an anachronism is due to mediaevalism.
Oscar Wilde
Image
To make a good salad is to be a brilliant diplomatist - the problem is entirely the same in both cases. To know exactly how much oil one must put with one's vinegar.
Oscar Wilde
Image
As for modern journalism, it is not my business to defend it. It justifies its own existence by the great Darwinian principle of the survival of the vulgarest.
Oscar Wilde
Image
Don't feed the trolls nothing fuels them so much.
Oscar Wilde
Image
If Nature had been comfortable, mankind would never have invented architecture.
Oscar Wilde
Image
Every one of course represents the spirit of his age, but there is an eternal aspect of the Spirit of every age which may be caught. To recreate the past from the mutilated fragments of the present is the task of the Historian.
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
Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.
Oscar Wilde
Image
As I lounged in the Park, or strolled down Piccadilly, I used to look at everyone who passed me, and wonder, with mad curiosity, what sort of lives they led. some of them fascinated me. Others filled me with terror.
Oscar Wilde
Image
Fashion is what one wears oneself. What is unfashionable is what other people wear.
Oscar Wilde
Image
Then there was a man who said, 'I never knew what real happiness was until I got married by then it was too late'
Oscar Wilde
Image
You told me you had destroyed it. I was wrong. It has destroyed me.
Oscar Wilde
Image
A flower blossoms for its own joy.
Oscar Wilde
Image
How does one cure the soul? Through the senses
Oscar Wilde