Quote

My wish isn't to mean everything to everyone but something to someone.

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
Wish
Everyone
Someone
Everything
Mean
Something

More quotes by Oscar Wilde

Image
A man who takes himself too seriously will find that no one else takes him seriously.
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
Those who are faithful know only the trivial side of love: it is the faithless who know love's tragedies.
Oscar Wilde
Image
Moderation is a fatal thing. Nothing succeeds like excess.
Oscar Wilde
Image
I adore political parties. They are the only place left to us where people don't talk politics.
Oscar Wilde
Image
No crime is vulgar, but all vulgarity is crime.
Oscar Wilde
Image
Through our sunless lanes creeps Poverty with her hungry eyes, and Sin with his sodden face follows close behind her. Misery wakes us in the morning and Shame sits with us at night.
Oscar Wilde
Image
At every single moment of one's life one is what one is going to be no less than what one has been.
Oscar Wilde
Image
She is very clever, too clever for a woman. She lacks the indefinable charm of weakness.
Oscar Wilde
Image
I don't like compliments, and I don't see why a man should think he is pleasing a woman enormously when he says to her a whole heap of things that he doesn't mean.
Oscar Wilde
Image
Life has been your art. You have set yourself to music. Your days are your sonnets.
Oscar Wilde
Image
Ones real life is often the life that one does not lead.
Oscar Wilde
Image
Pessimist: One who, when he has the choice of two evils, chooses both.
Oscar Wilde
Image
I knew nothing but shadows and I thought them to be real.
Oscar Wilde
Image
There is one thing worse than an absolutely loveless marriage: a marriage in which there is love, but on one side only.
Oscar Wilde
Image
After playing Chopin, I feel as if I had been weeping over sins that I had never committed, and mourning over tragedies that were not my own. Music always seems to me to produce that effect. It creates for one a past of which one has been ignorant, and fills one with a sense of sorrows that have been hidden from one’s tears.
Oscar Wilde
Image
Science can never grapple with the irrational. That is why it has no future before it, in this world.
Oscar Wilde
Image
I have the simplest tastes. I am always satisfied with the best.
Oscar Wilde
Image
Plain women are always jealous of their husbands. Beautiful women never are. They are always so occupied with being jealous of other women's husbands.
Oscar Wilde
Image
Looking good and dressing well is a necessity. Having a purpose in life is not.
Oscar Wilde