Top 100 Life Oscar Wilde Quotes
#1. What a lurid life Oscar Wilde does lead - so full of extraordinary incidents. What a chance for the memoir writers of the next century
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#2. To win in life, never forget to be content competing with yourself.
Debasish Mridha
#3. A smile is the flower that grows in the garden of the heart to beautify and attract the butterflies of life.
Debasish Mridha
#4. Some of us are looking at the stars, but all of us are living in the gutter.
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#5. The real currency of life is not money but love. Real success comes not from earning but from giving.
Debasish Mridha
#6. The fatal errors of life are not due to man's being unreasonable: an unreasonable moment may be one's finest moment. They are due to man's being logical.
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#7. I love deeply and admire the beauties of life and its expression in many different art forms. I am an aesthetic philosopher.
Debasish Mridha
#8. The stage is not merely the meeting place of all the arts, but is also the return of art to life.
Oscar Wilde
#9. When you look at a flower with an appreciative heart and get lost in the magical beauty, you really get a vacation from the everyday stressful life.
Debasish Mridha
#10. The visible aspect of modern life disturbs him not; rather is it for him to render eternal all that is beautiful in Greek, Italian, and Celtic legend.
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#11. One must be serious about something, if one wants to have any amusement in life.
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#12. Political life at Washington is like political life in a suburban vestry.
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#13. If life is a business, then you are blessed with an abundance of capital which is your unconditional love.
Debasish Mridha
#14. I treated Art as the supreme reality and life as a mere mode of fiction.
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#15. How long could you love a woman who didn't love you, Cecil?
A woman who didn't love me? Oh, all my life!
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#16. The life that was to make his soul would mar his body.
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#17. Anybody can write a three-volume novel. It merely requires a complete ignorance of both life and literature.
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#18. When I was young I thought money was the most important thing in life, now that I'm old - I know it is!
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#20. If you are truly in love with this world and your life, then you will lose the sense of angst.
Debasish Mridha
#21. Change is inevitable and the ultimate way of life. Change creates new opportunities for new beauties in life.
Debasish Mridha
#22. As a wicked man I am a complete failure. Why, there are lots of people who say I have never really done anything wrong in the whole course of my life. Of course they only say it behind my back.
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#23. There is only one real tragedy in a woman's life. The fact that her past is always her lover, and her future invariably her husband.
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#24. Life makes us pay too high a price for its wares, and we purchase the meanest of its secrets at a cost that is monstrous and infinite.
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#25. We can have in life but one great experience at best, and the secret of life is to reproduce that experience as often as possible.'
'Even when one has been wounded by it, Harry?' asked the duchess after a pause.
'Especially when one has been wounded by it,' answered Lord Henry.
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#26. Life is one fool thing after another whereas love is two fool things after each other.
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#27. My battle weapons in life are very simple; my weapons are love and kindness.
Debasish Mridha
#28. I envy you going to Oxford: it is the most flower-like time of one's life. One sees the shadow of things in silver mirrors. Later on, one sees the Gorgon's head, and one suffers, because it does not turn one to stone.
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#29. I hope you have not been leading a double life, pretending to be wicked and being good all the time. That would be hypocrisy.
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#30. But then no artist expects grace from the vulgar mind, or style from the suburban intellect. Vulgarity and stupidity are two very vivid facts in modern life. One regrets them, naturally. But there they are.
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#31. Algy, you always adopt a strictly immoral attitude towards life. You are not quite old enough to do that.
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#32. The secret seems to be the only way to become mysterious and wonderful modern life. The commonest thing gets a touch fascinating when done on the sly.
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#33. Ethics, like natural selection, make existence possible. Aesthetics, like sensual selection, make life lovely and wonderful, fill it with new forms, and give it progress, and variety and change.
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#34. Harry spends his days in saying what is incredible, and his evenings in doing what is improbable. Just the sort of life I would like to lead.
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#35. You are more to me than any of them has any idea; you are the atmosphere of beauty through which I see life; you are the incarnation of all lovely things...I think of you day and night. ~ Letter to Lord Alfred 'Bosie' Douglas
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#36. What sort of life would his be if, day and night, shadows of his crime were to peer at him from silent corners, to mock him from secret places, to whisper in his ear as he sat at the feast, to wake him with icy fingers as he lay asleep!
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#37. To-night, for the first time in my life, I saw through the hollowness, the sham, the silliness of the empty pageant in which I had always played. To-night,
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#38. If a man treats life artistically, his brain is his heart
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#39. One sometime feels that it is only with a front of brass and a lip of scorn that one can get through the day at all.
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#40. Waning. He was perfectly safe there. Nor, indeed, was it the death of Basil Hallward that weighed most upon his mind. It was the living death of his own soul that troubled him. Basil had painted the portrait that had marred his life.
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#41. Life is a song. Your thoughts are the music. Now play beautiful music and sing a wonderful song.
Debasish Mridha
#42. Some subtle influence passed from him to me, and for the first time in my life I saw in the plain woodland the wonder I had always looked for, and always missed.
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#43. Sin is the only color- element left in modern life.
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#44. The consciousness of loving and being loved brings a warmth and richness to life that nothing else can bring.
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#45. Ordinary people waited till life disclosed to them its secrets, but to the few, to the elect, the mysteries of life were revealed before the veil was drawn away. Sometimes this was the effect of art, and chiefly of the art of literature, which dealt immediately with the passions and the intellect.
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#46. Kindness is the ultimate essence of life; compassion is the ultimate evidence of love.
Debasish Mridha
#47. It is because Humanity has never known where it was going that it has been able to find its way.
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#49. The only real people are the people who never existed, and if a novelist is base enough to go to life for his personages he should at least pretend that they are creations, and not boast of them as copies.
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#50. Don't squander the gold of your days, listening to the tedious, trying to improve the hopeless failure, or giving away your life to the ignorant, the common, and the vulgar
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#51. The growing influence of women is the one reassuring thing in our political life.
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#52. To become the spectator of one's own life, as Harry says, is to escape the suffering of life. I
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#53. The currency of a happy life is not money, but it is pure love.
Debasish Mridha
#54. I don't play accurately
any one can play accurately
but I play with wonderful expression. As far as the piano is concerned, sentiment is my forte. I keep science for Life.
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#55. The hero, the wonderful young Parisian in whom the romantic and the scientific temperaments were so strangely blended, became to him a kind of prefiguring type of himself. And, indeed, the whole book seemed to him to contain the story of his own life, written before he had lived it.
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#56. Life is not about reality. It is about how you perceive it.
Debasish Mridha
#57. Life is never fair, and perhaps it is a good thing for most of us that it is not.
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#58. The Number our envious Persons, confirmation our capability.
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#59. The first duty in life is to be as artificial as possible. What the second duty is no one has as yet discovered.
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#60. If life is an adventure, then a vacation is an adventure to find true joy.
Debasish Mridha
#62. Life is terrible. It rules us, we do not rule it.
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#63. Life is an incredible adventure into the mysterious unknown future.
Debasish Mridha
#64. To get to a destination, you have to know the address. To find your purpose in life, you must set a goal, draw a map, and start the journey.
Debasish Mridha
#65. Life is a journey. If you can't walk, journey with your thoughts and imaginations.
Debasish Mridha
#66. We are born to unfold the beauty of life and to adorn the universe with unique thoughts.
Debasish Mridha
#67. The two great turning-points of my life were when my father sent to Oxford, and when society sent me to prison.
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#69. If you are not too long, I will wait here for you all my life.
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#70. LORD GORING: ... All I do know is that life cannot be understood without much charity, cannot be lived without much charity. It is love, and not German philosophy, that is the true explanation of this world, whatever may.
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#72. Egotism itself, which is so necessary to a proper sense of human dignity, is entirely the result of indoor life.
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#74. Book knowledge is not enough. Experiential knowledge is essential for success in life.
Debasish Mridha
#76. Ah, on what little things does happiness depend! I have read all that the wise men have written, and all the secrets of philosophy are mine, yet for want of a red rose is my life made wretched.
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#78. Measure your life not by its longevity but by the differences you have made with your creativity and beauty.
Debasish Mridha
#79. I am always astonishing myself. It is the only thing that makes life worth living.
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#80. Out of the unreal shadows of night comes back the real life that we had known. We have to resume it where we had left off ... p 207
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#81. Life cheats us with shadows. We ask it for pleasure. It gives it to us with bitterness and disappointment in its train.
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#82. To elope is cowardly; it is running away from danger, and danger has
become so rare in modern life.
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#83. True wealth does not glitter. It is revealed by the beauty of a life well lived.
Debasish Mridha
#84. The essence of thought, as the essence of life, is growth.
Oscar Wilde
#85. Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead.
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#86. Always be excited about your life. Try to find and create beauty in and around you. Give away your love and smiles as much as you can. Be content and happy with what you have.
Debasish Mridha
#87. From the point of view of literature Mr. Kipling is a genius who drops his aspirates. From the point of view of life, he is a reporter who knows vulgarity better than any one has ever known it.
Oscar Wilde
#88. The meaning of life is life itself. The reward of love is love itself. The joy of the journey is not in the destination but in the journey itself.
Debasish Mridha
#90. Life is too short to be taken seriously.
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#91. I have grown to love secrecy. It seems to be the one thing that can make modern life mysterious or marvelous to us. The commonest thing is delightful if only one hides it.
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#92. There are only two tragedies in life: one is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it.
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#93. In a very ugly and sensible age, the arts borrow, not from life, but from each other.
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#96. Ah! Your heavenly smile makes my heart dance with the ecstasy of life.
Debasish Mridha
#97. Life has been your art. You have set yourself to music. Your days are your sonnets.
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#98. Life had suddenly become too hideous a burden for him to bear. The dreadful death of the unlucky beater, shot in the thicket like a wild
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#99. Aestheticism is a search after the signs of the beautiful. It is the science of the beautiful through which men seek the correlation of the arts. It is, to speak more exactly, the search after the secret of life.
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#100. Where your life leads you, you must go
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