Oscar Wilde Quotes

“The secret of life is to appreciate the pleasure of being terribly, terribly deceived.”

― Oscar Wilde, A Woman of No Importance

topic:life

“Death must be so beautiful. To lie in the soft brown earth, with the grasses waving above one's head, and listen to silence. To have no yesterday, and no to-morrow. To forget time, to forget life, to be at peace.”

― Oscar Wilde, The Canterville Ghost

topic:death peace silence

“Oh, brothers! I don't care for brothers. My elder brother won't die, and my younger brothers seem never to do anything else.”

― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

topic:death care

“One can survive everything nowadays, except death, and live down anything except a good reputation.”

― Oscar Wilde, A Woman of No Importance

topic:death living

“With freedom, flowers, books, and the moon, who could not be perfectly happy?”

― Oscar Wilde, De Profundis

topic:happiness freedom reading

“Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.”

― Oscar Wilde, Intentions

topic:truth self

“My dear fellow, the truth isn't quite the sort of thing one tells to a nice, sweet, refined girl.”

― Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest

topic:truth women lie

“Gwendolen, it is a terrible thing for a man to find out suddenly that all his life he has been speaking nothing but the truth. Can you forgive me?”

― Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest

topic:truth forgiveness

“It is perfectly monstrous . . . the way people go about nowadays saying things against one behind one's back that are absolutely and entirely true.”

― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

topic:truth

“He was always late on principle, his principle being that punctuality is the thief of time.”

― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

topic:time

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