Quote

There are times when sorrow seems to me to be the only truth.

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
Grief
Sorrow
Suffering
Times
Truth
Seems

More quotes by Oscar Wilde

Image
George Moore wrote brilliant English until he discovered grammar.
Oscar Wilde
Image
The condition of perfection is idleness: the aim of perfection is youth.
Oscar Wilde
Image
Yet each man kills the thing he loves By each let this be heard Some do it with a bitter look Some with a flattering word The coward does it with a kiss The brave man with a sword
Oscar Wilde
Image
Sooner or later we have all to pay for what we do.
Oscar Wilde
Image
Artists, like the Greek gods, are only revealed to one another.
Oscar Wilde
Image
What a pity that in life we only get our lessons when they are of no use to us.
Oscar Wilde
Image
Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing.
Oscar Wilde
Image
Poor? What does that matter? When poverty creeps in at the door, love flies in through the window.
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
Each man lived his own life and paid his own price for living it. The only pity was one had to pay so often for a single fault. One had to pay over and over again, indeed. In her dealings with man, Destiny never closed her accounts.
Oscar Wilde
Image
If one doesn't talk about a thing, it has never happened. It is simply expression that gives reality to things.
Oscar Wilde
Image
One must have some sort of occupation nowadays. If I hadn't my debts I shouldn't have anything to think about.
Oscar Wilde
Image
When one is in town one amuses oneself. When one is in the country one amuses other people. It is excessively boring.
Oscar Wilde
Image
Who, being loved, is poor?
Oscar Wilde
Image
All authority is quite degrading. It degrades those who exercise it, and it degrades those over whom it is exercised.
Oscar Wilde
Image
Some temptations are so great it takes great courage to yield to them.
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
The 19thc hatred of Realism is Caliban's enraged reaction to seeing his own face in the mirror. The 19thc rejection of Romanticism is Caliban's fury at not seeing his face reflected in the mirror.
Oscar Wilde
Image
There can be nothing more frequent than an occasional drink.
Oscar Wilde
Image
A woman's life revolves in curves of emotions. It is upon lines of intellect that a man's life progresses.
Oscar Wilde