Quote

Always! That is the dreadful word ... it is a meaningless word, too.

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
Dreadful
Meaningless
Word
Change
Always

More quotes by Oscar Wilde

Image
I never travel without my diary. One should always have something sensational to read in the train.
Oscar Wilde
Image
Beauty is a form of genius -- is higher, indeed, than genius, as it needs no explanation.
Oscar Wilde
Image
Youth is the only thing worth having. When I find that I am growing old, I shall kill myself.
Oscar Wilde
Image
The weather still continues charming.
Oscar Wilde
Image
One should not be too severe on English novels they are the only relaxation of the intellectually unemployed.
Oscar Wilde
Image
The only things one never regrets are one's mistakes.
Oscar Wilde
Image
LADY STUTFIELD I adore silent men. MRS ALLONBY Oh, Ernest isn't silent. He talks the whole time. But he has got no conversation. What he talks about I don't know. I haven't listened to him for years.
Oscar Wilde
Image
A thing is not necessarily true because a man dies for it.
Oscar Wilde
Image
Youth! There is nothing like youth. The middle-aged are mortgaged to Life. The old are in Life's lumber-room. But youth is the Lord of Life. Youth has a kingdom waiting for it. Every one is born a king, and most people die in exile.
Oscar Wilde
Image
Genius lasts longer than Beauty. That accounts for the fact that we all take such pains to over-educate ourselves.
Oscar Wilde
Image
A mask tells us more than a face.
Oscar Wilde
Image
I don’t regret for a single moment having lived for pleasure. I did it to the full, as one should do everything that one does. There was no pleasure I did not experience.
Oscar Wilde
Image
And the marvellous rose became crimson, like the rose of the eastern sky. Crimson was the girdle of petals, and crimson as a ruby was the heart
Oscar Wilde
Image
If one could only teach the English how to talk, and the Irish how to listen, society here would be quite civilized.
Oscar Wilde
Image
I should have remembered that when one is going to lead an entirely new life, one requires regular and wholesome meals.
Oscar Wilde
Image
Despotism is unjust to everybody, including the despot, who was probably made for better things.
Oscar Wilde
Image
I hate people who are not serious about meals. It is so shallow of them.
Oscar Wilde
Image
Every saint has a past, and every sinner has a future.
Oscar Wilde
Image
She is very clever, too clever for a woman. She lacks the indefinable charm of weakness.
Oscar Wilde
Image
Being natural is simply a pose, and the most irritating pose I know.
Oscar Wilde