Quote

Foxhunting... the unspeakable pursuing the inedible.

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
Inedible
Unspeakable
Pursuing

More quotes by Oscar Wilde

Image
I love hearing my relations abused. It is the only thing that makes me put up with them at all. Relations are simply a tedious pack of people, who haven't got the remotest knowledge of how to live nor the smallest instinct about when to die.
Oscar Wilde
Image
To be natural is such a very difficult pose to keep up.
Oscar Wilde
Image
To regret one’s own experiences is to arrest one’s own development. To deny one’s own experiences is to put a lie into the lips of one’s own life. It is no less than a denial of the soul.
Oscar Wilde
Image
A map of the world that does not include Utopia is not worth even glancing at, for it leaves out the one country at which Humanity is always landing.
Oscar Wilde
Image
the costume of the nineteenth century is detestable. It is so sombre, so depressing. Sin is the only real colour-element left in modern life.
Oscar Wilde
Image
One should either be a work of art, or wear a work of art.
Oscar Wilde
Image
It would leave no room for developments and I intend to develop in many directions.
Oscar Wilde
Image
Simple pleasures are the last healthy refuge in a complex world.
Oscar Wilde
Image
A great poet, a really great poet, is the most unpoetical of all creatures. But inferior poets are absolutely fascinating.
Oscar Wilde
Image
You know more than you think you know, just as you know less than you want to know.
Oscar Wilde
Image
People fashion their God after their own understanding. They make their God first and worship him afterwards.
Oscar Wilde
Image
Somehow or other I'll be famous, and if not famous, I'll be notorious.
Oscar Wilde
Image
To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.
Oscar Wilde
Image
When critics disagree the artist is in accord with himself.
Oscar Wilde
Image
A man is called affected, nowadays, if he dresses as he likes to dress. But in doing that he is acting in a perfectly natural manner. Affectation, in such matters, consists in dressing according to the views of one's neighbour, whose views, as they are the views of the majority, will probably be extremely stupid.
Oscar Wilde
Image
Art, like Nature, has her monsters, things of bestial shape and with hideous voices.
Oscar Wilde
Image
Every one is worthy of love, except him who thinks that he is. Love is a sacrament that should be taken kneeling.
Oscar Wilde
Image
Scandal is gossip made tedious by morality.
Oscar Wilde
Image
You told me you had destroyed it. I was wrong. It has destroyed me.
Oscar Wilde
Image
When our eyes met, I felt that I was growing pale. A curious sensation of terror came over me. I knew that I had come face to face with some one whose mere personality was so fascinating that, if I allowed it to do so, it would absorb my whole nature, my whole soul, my very art itself.
Oscar Wilde