Quote

Comfort is the only thing our civilization can give us.

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
Philosophy
History
Art
Give
Giving
Thing
Comfort
Civilization

More quotes by Oscar Wilde

Image
God grant me the serenity to accept that people are ignorant, the courage to uphold the law when I'm hostile, & the wisdom to realize that murder is illegal.
Oscar Wilde
Image
The moment that an artist takes notice of what other people want, and tries to supply the demand, he ceases to be an artist.
Oscar Wilde
Image
A simile committing suicide is always a depressing spectacle.
Oscar Wilde
Image
Better the rule of One, whom all obey, than to let clamorous demagogues betray our freedom with the kiss of anarchy.
Oscar Wilde
Image
To be popular one must be a mediocrity.
Oscar Wilde
Image
And once, or twice, to throw the dice is a gentlemanly game, But he does not win who plays with Sin in the secret house of shame
Oscar Wilde
Image
I could never quite accustom myself to absinthe, but it suits my style so well
Oscar Wilde
Image
I like men who have a future and women who have a past.
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
Ambition is the last refuge of the failure.
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 world is a stage, but the play is badly cast.
Oscar Wilde
Image
Progress in thought is the assertion of individualism against authority.
Oscar Wilde
Image
I would not a bit mind sleeping in the cool grass in summer, and when winter came on sheltering myself by the warm close-thatched rick, or under the penthouse of a great barn, provided I had love in my heart.
Oscar Wilde
Image
Fathers should be neither seen nor heard. That is the only proper basis for family life.
Oscar Wilde
Image
I live constantly in the fear of not being misunderstood.
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
Image
It is a much cleverer thing to talk nonsense than to listen to it.
Oscar Wilde
Image
I like looking at geniuses and listening to beautiful people.
Oscar Wilde
Image
The key to making up Oscar Wilde quotes is to add '~ Oscar Wilde' at the end.
Oscar Wilde