Quotes by Oscar Wilde

Oscar Wilde

…The two great turning-points of my life were when my father sent to Oxford, and when society sent me to prison.

Father

Oxford

Two

“I hope to-morrow will be a fine day, Lane.” “It never is, sir.” “Lane, you’re a perfect pessimist.” “I do my best to give satisfaction, sir.”

Giving

Perfect

Satisfaction

“I hope your hair curls naturally, does it?” “Yes, darling, with a little help from others.”

Curls

Doe

Hair

“There is no such thing as a good influence, Mr. Gray. All influence is immoral — immoral from the scientific point of view.” “Why?” “Because to influence a person is to give him one’s own soul.”

Giving

Influence

Soul

“Why is it that at a bachelor’s establishment the servants invariably drink the champagne? I ask merely for information.” “I attribute it to the superior quality of the wine, sir. I have often observed that in married households the champagne is rarely of a first-rate brand.” “Good Heavens! Is marriage so demoralizing as that?” “I believe it is a very pleasant state, sir. I have had very little experience of it myself up to the present. I have only been married once. That was in consequence of a misunderstanding between myself and a young person.”

Believe

Heaven

Wine

[on his deathbed in a Paris hotel room] Either this wallpaper goes, or I do.

Humor

[T]he recognition of private property has really harmed Individualism, and obscured it, by confusing a man with what he possesses. It has led Individualism entirely astray. It has made gain, not growth its aim. So that man thought that the important thing is to have, and did not know that the important thing is to be.

Confusing

Growth

Men

A beautiful woman risking everything for a mad passion. A few wild weeks of happiness cut short by a hideous, treacherous crime. Months of voiceless agony, and then a child born in pain. The mother snatched away by death, the boy left to solitude and the tyranny of an old and loveless man. Yes, it was an interesting background. It posed the lad, made him more perfect as it were. Behind every exquisite thing that existed, there was something tragic.

Beautiful

Mother

Pain

A beggar hates his benefactor as much as he hates himself for begging.

Begging

Charity

Hate

A bishop keeps on saying at the age of eighty what he was told to say at the age of eighteen.

Age

Bishops

Eighteen

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4th Of July

Abandoned

Ability

Able

Abnormal

About Yourself

Absence

Abstinence

Abstract

Absurd

Accepting

Accomplishment

Achieve

Achievement

Acting

Action

Actors

Adam

Adam And Eve

Add

Admirable

Admiration

Admire

Admirer

Adore

Advantage

Adventure

Adversity

Advice

Affection

Age

Age And Youth

Aggravating

Aging

Agree

Aim

Aim Of Life

Air

Albania

Alcohol

Alive

All Things

Already Taken

Always Happy

Ambition

America

Amusement

Amusing

Anachronism

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Quotes by Oscar Wilde

Oscar Wilde

…The two great turning-points of my life were when my father sent to Oxford, and when society sent me to prison.

“I hope to-morrow will be a fine day, Lane.” “It never is, sir.” “Lane, you’re a perfect pessimist.” “I do my best to give satisfaction, sir.”

“I hope your hair curls naturally, does it?” “Yes, darling, with a little help from others.”

“There is no such thing as a good influence, Mr. Gray. All influence is immoral — immoral from the scientific point of view.” “Why?” “Because to influence a person is to give him one’s own soul.”

[on his deathbed in a Paris hotel room] Either this wallpaper goes, or I do.

A beggar hates his benefactor as much as he hates himself for begging.

A bishop keeps on saying at the age of eighty what he was told to say at the age of eighteen.

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