Quote

Ah, on what little things does happiness depend.

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
Happiness
Doe
Littles
Little
Things
Depend
Depends

More quotes by Oscar Wilde

Image
My writing has gone to bits - like my character. I am simply a self-conscious nerve in pain.
Oscar Wilde
Image
To have friends, you know, one need only be good-natured but when a man has no enemy left there must be something mean about him.
Oscar Wilde
Image
Appearance blinds, whereas words reveal.
Oscar Wilde
Image
I never put off till tomorrow what I can do the day after.
Oscar Wilde
Image
The emotions of man are stirred more quickly than man’s intelligence.
Oscar Wilde
Image
If people were meant to be nude, they would have been born this way.
Oscar Wilde
Image
I hate people who are not serious about meals. It is so shallow of them.
Oscar Wilde
Image
The one charm of the past is that it is the past.
Oscar Wilde
Image
I was disappointed in Niagara - most people must be disappointed in Niagara. Every American bride is taken there, and the sight of the stupendous waterfall must be one of the earliest, if not the keenest, disappointments in American married life.
Oscar Wilde
Image
I find him in the curves of certain lines, in the loveliness and subtleties of certain colours.
Oscar Wilde
Image
She is a peacock in everything but beauty!
Oscar Wilde
Image
He who stands most remote from his age is he who mirrors it best.
Oscar Wilde
Image
As for borrowing Mr. Whistler's ideas about art, the only thoroughly original ideas I have heard him express have had reference to his own superiority as a painter over painters greater than himself.
Oscar Wilde
Image
I can't help detesting my relations. I suppose it comes from the fact that none of us can stand other people having the same faults as ourselves.
Oscar Wilde
Image
The sign of a Philistine age is the cry of immorality against art.
Oscar Wilde
Image
Be yourself everyone else is taken.
Oscar Wilde
Image
The commonest thing is delightful if one only hides it.
Oscar Wilde
Image
The one advantage of playing with fire...is that no one ever gets singed. It is the people who don't know how to play with it who get burned up.
Oscar Wilde
Image
Don't be afraid. There are exquisite things in store for you. This is merely the beginning.
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