Oscar Wilde Doe Quotations

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.

I am jealous of everything whose beauty does not die. I am jealous of the portrait you have painted of me. Why should it keep what I must lose? Every moment that passes takes something from me and gives something to it. Oh, if it were only the other way! If the picture could change, and I could be always what I am now! Why did you paint it? It will mock me some day—mock me horribly!

I am jealous of everything whose beauty does not die.

How does one cure the soul? Through the senses

I am a born antinomian. I am one of those who are made for exceptions, not for laws. But while I see that there is nothing wrong in what one does, I see that there is something wrong in what one becomes.

I love scrapes. They are the only things that are never serious." "Oh, that's nonsense, Algy. You never talk anything but nonsense." "Nobody ever does.

Just because a man has died for it, does not make it true.

A man who moralizes is a hypocrite, and a woman who does so is invariably plain.

And certainly once a man begins to neglect his domestic duties he becomes painfully effeminate, does he not? And I don't like that. It makes men so very attractive.

Ah, on what little things does happiness depend.

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.

You are young. No hungry generations tread you down. The past does not mock you with the ruins of a beauty the secret of whose creation you have lost

The great poet is always a seer, seeing less with the eyes of the body than he does with the eyes of the mind.

The truth about the life of a man is not what he does, but the legend which he creates around himself.

I am very glad I have travelled. Travel improves the mind wonderfully, and does away with all one's prejudices.

You can't possibly ask me to go without having some dinner. It's absurd. I never go without my dinner. No one ever does, except vegetarians and people like that.

What fire does not destroy, it hardens

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

Travel ennobles the spirit and does away with our prejudices.

I have learned this: it is not what one does that is wrong, but what one becomes as a consequence of it.

One does not see anything until one sees its beauty.

Any map of the world that does not include Utopia is not even worth glancing at.

They are always asking a writer why he does not write like somebody else, or a painter why he does not paint like somebody else, quite oblivious of the fact that if either of them did anything of the kind he would cease to be an artist.