Quote

Great passions are for the great of soul, and great events can be seen only by those who are on a level with them

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
Soul
Great
Passions
Level
Events
Levels
Seen
Passion

More quotes by Oscar Wilde

Image
Life is not complex. We are complex. Life is simple, and the simple thing is the right thing.
Oscar Wilde
Image
Life is too short to be in a hurry.
Oscar Wilde
Image
Just because a man has died for it, does not make it true.
Oscar Wilde
Image
He rides in the row at ten o clock in the morning, goes to the Opera three times a week, changes his clothes at least five times a day, and dines out every night of the season. You don't call that leading an idle life, do you?
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
The wild Bee reels from bough to bough With his furry coat and his gauzy wing, Now in a lily cup, and now Setting a jacinth bell a-swing, In his wandering.
Oscar Wilde
Image
Irony is wasted on the stupid
Oscar Wilde
Image
Love will fly if held too lightly Love will die if held too tightly . . .
Oscar Wilde
Image
Women are a decorative sex. They never have anything to say, but they say it charmingly
Oscar Wilde
Image
The only things one never regrets are one's mistakes.
Oscar Wilde
Image
In art, the public accept what has been, because they cannot alter it, not because they appreciate it. They swallow their classics whole, and never taste them.
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
Everyone should keep someone else's diary.
Oscar Wilde
Image
Women love us for our defects. If we have enough of them, they will forgive us everything, even our gigantic intellects.
Oscar Wilde
Image
As yet, Bernard Shaw hasn't become prominent enough to have any enemies, but none of his friends like him.
Oscar Wilde
Image
Music is the perfect type of art.
Oscar Wilde
Image
When I was young, I was no one. Now, I'm worldwilde.
Oscar Wilde
Image
A passion for pleasure is the secret of remaining young.
Oscar Wilde
Image
The only thing worse than quoting me, is not quoting me
Oscar Wilde
Image
The truth is never pure and rarely simple.
Oscar Wilde