Top 68 Time Oscar Wilde Quotes
#1. Women have a much better time than men in this world; there are far more things forbidden to them.
Oscar Wilde
#2. I believe some picture of mine had made a great success at the time, at least had been chattered about in the penny newspapers, which is the nineteenth-century standard of immortality.
Oscar Wilde
#3. Yet, after some time, he wearied of them, and would sit in his box at the opera, either alone or with Lord Henry, listening in rapt pleasure to "Tannhauser" and seeing in the prelude to that great work of art a presentation of the tragedy of his own soul.
Oscar Wilde
#4. I like Wagner's music better than anybody's. It is so loud that one can talk the whole time without other people hearing what one says.
Oscar Wilde
#5. What was youth at best? A green, an unripe time, a time of shallow moods, and sickly thoughts.
Oscar Wilde
#6. A man who marries without knowing Bunbury has a very tedious time of it.
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#8. The time and situation is always right to express and experience the beauty of kindness.
Debasish Mridha
#9. MRS. ALLONBY. Curious thing, plain women are always jealous of their husbands, beautiful women never are!
LORD ILLINGWORTH. Beautiful women never have time. They are always so occupied in being jealous of other people's husbands.
Oscar Wilde
#10. I am always late on principle, my principle being that punctuality is the thief of time.
Oscar Wilde
#11. There are works which wait, and which one does not understand for a long time; the reason is that they bring answers to questions which have not yet been raised; for the question often arrives a terribly long time after the answer.
Oscar Wilde
#12. That is the mission of art - to make us pause and look at a thing a second time.
Oscar Wilde
#13. Our proverbs want rewriting. They were made in winter, and it is summer now; spring-time for me, I think, a very dance of blossoms in blue skies.
Oscar Wilde
#14. Time is jealous of you, and wars against your lilies and your roses.
Oscar Wilde
#15. Oh Dear! The only time I want to love you is today, tomorrow, and forever.
Debasish Mridha
#16. An egg is always an adventure; it may be different each time
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#17. MRS. ALLONBY. It is only fair to tell you beforehand he has got no conversation at all.
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
#18. I used to hunt as a child but gave up the chase in my 'Ho Ho Ho Chi-Minh, we shall fight and we shall win' chanting and marching days - by which time I had come to share Oscar Wilde's feelings about 'the unspeakable in full pursuit of the uneatable.'
Jonathan Dimbleby
#19. Vacations are the best time to find your true self deep inside.
Debasish Mridha
#20. With your spare time and money, make a difference for those who can't afford a life.
Debasish Mridha
#21. Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.
Oscar Wilde
#23. Oh, why will parents always appear at the wrong time? Some extraordinary mistake in nature, I suppose.
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#24. There was evidently no time to be lost, so, hastily adopting the Fourth dimension of Space as a means of escape, he vanished through the wainscoting, and the house became quite quiet.
Oscar Wilde
#25. Yes; poor Bunbury is a dreadful invalid.
Well, I must say, Algernon, that I think it is high time that Mr. Bunbury made up his mind whether he was going to live or to die. This shillyshallying with the question is absurd.
Oscar Wilde
#26. How can you find time to complain if your life is always changing?
Debasish Mridha
#27. This woman is a genius in the day time and a beauty at night
Oscar Wilde
#28. You know we poor artists have to show ourselves in society from time to time, just to remind the public that we are not savages.
Oscar Wilde
#29. we poor artists have to show ourselves in society from time to time, just to remind the public that we are not savages. With
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#30. I delight in men over seventy. They always offer one the devotion of a lifetime.
Oscar Wilde
#31. When one pays a visit it is for the purpose of wasting other people's time, not one's own.
Oscar Wilde
#32. We think that time is changing, but that may not be true. Everything else is changing and time is standing still and watching.
Debasish Mridha
#33. Be warned in time, James, and remain, as I do, incomprehensible: to be great is to be misunderstood
Oscar Wilde
#34. If we men married the women we deserved, we should have a very bad time of it.
Oscar Wilde
#35. Each time that one loves is the only time one has ever loved.
Oscar Wilde
#36. Lord AUGUSTUS:(looking around) Time to educate yourself, I suppose.
DUMBY: No, time to forget all I have learned. That is much more important.
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#37. Cecily. This is no time for wearing the shallow mask of manners. When I see a spade I call it a spade.
Gwendolen. [Satirically.] I am glad to say that I have never seen a spade. It is obvious that our social spheres have been widely different.
Oscar Wilde
#38. Suffering is one very long moment. We cannot divide it by seasons. We can only record its moods, and chronicle their return. With us time itself does not progress. It revolves. It seems to circle round one centre of pain.
Oscar Wilde
#39. Children begin by loving their parents; after a time they judge them; rarely, if ever, do they forgive them.
Oscar Wilde
#40. To achieve all of your goals, focus on one goal at a time.
Debasish Mridha
#41. 'He's the most charming man. He's the Oscar Wilde of our time. I only had one moment with him in that film and it's a great source of regret. I love spending time with him. He's always very open and effusive. His interest in you is genuine.'
Russell Crowe
#42. Oscar Wilde turned the world upside down and was able to laugh at it, and hopefully by the time I'm 120 and worn out, that's what I will achieve. I love being alive so much.
John Lydon
#43. If people are dishonest once, they will be dishonest a second time. And honest people should keep away from them. (Lady Chiltern)
Oscar Wilde
#44. I like to do all the talking myself. It saves time, and prevents arguments.
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#45. 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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#46. And Sleep will not lie down, but walks
Wild-eyed and cries to Time.
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#48. 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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#49. I hope you have not been leading a double life, pretending to be wicked and being good all the time. That would be hypocrisy.
Oscar Wilde
#50. 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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#51. Our husbands would really forget our existence if we didn't nag at them from time to time, just to remind them that we have a perfect legal right to do so.
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#52. 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
#53. Second time you have made that observation. If one puts forward an idea to a true Englishman
always a rash thing to do
he never dreams of considering whether the idea is right or wrong. The only thing
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#55. I was raised on the brothers Grimm, but my favorite fairy tales in the world are Oscar Wilde's - 'The Nightingale and the Rose,' 'The Selfish Giant.' The latter is probably my all-time favorite.
Denis O'Hare
#56. He to whom the present is the only thing that is present, knows nothing of the age in which he lives.
Oscar Wilde
#57. Yes, very sensible ... People die of common sense, Dorian, one lost moment at a time. Life is a moment. There is no hereafter. So make it burn always with the hardest flame.
Oscar Wilde
#58. I feel I must come with you. And will you talk to me all the time? No one talks so wonderfully as you do.
Oscar Wilde
#59. Oscar Wilde once said that to live is the rarest thing in the world, because most people just exist, and that's all. I don't know if he's right, but I do know that I spend a long time existing, and now, I intend to live.
Robyn Schneider
#60. Out of the black cave of time, terrible and swathed in scarlet, rose the image of his sin.
Oscar Wilde
#61. It is always painful to part from people whom one has known for a brief space of time. The absence of old friends one can endure with equanimity, But even a momentary separation from anyone to whom one has just been introduced is almost unbearable.
Oscar Wilde
#62. To be entirely free, and at the same time entirely dominated by law, is the eternal paradox of human life.
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#63. I've now realised for the first time in my life the vital Importance of Being Earnest.
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#64. We who live in prison, and in whose lives there is no event but sorrow, have to measure time by throbs of pain, and the record of bitter moments.
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#65. A man who pays his bills on time is soon forgotten.
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#66. Beauty is the only thing that time cannot harm. Philosophies fall away like sand, creeds follow one another, but what is beautiful is a joy for all seasons, a possession for all eternity.
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#67. Just as the philanthropist is the nuisance of the ethical sphere, so the nuisance of the intellectual sphere is the man who is so occupied in trying to educate others, that he has never had any time to educate himself.
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#68. It was you I thought of all the time, I gave to them the love you did not need: lavished on them a love that was not theirs.
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