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Oscar Wilde — Portrait after a picture by Napoleon Sarony / Adam Cuerden (public domain), via Wikimedia Commons.

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Oscar Wilde

Irish poet, playwright, and aesthete

1854–1900

173 quotes, most often on Marriage, Love and Comedy. Part of the Writers and Poets collections.

To be in love is to surpass one’s self.
The Picture of Dorian Gray (1891), Chapter VIn context
- Love
Sin is a thing that writes itself across a man’s face. It cannot be concealed. People talk sometimes of secret vices. There are no such things. If a wretched man has a vice, it shows itself in the lines of his mouth, the droop of his eyelids, the moulding of his hands even.
The Picture of Dorian Gray (1891), Chapter XIIIn context
- Morality
The only horrible thing in the world is ennui
The Picture of Dorian Gray (1891), Chapter XVIIIIn context
- Emotion
Destiny does not send us heralds. She is too wise or too cruel for that.
The Picture of Dorian Gray (1891), Chapter XVIIIIn context
- Luck
I hear her hair has turned quite gold from grief.
The Importance of Being Earnest (1895), First Act, spoken by AlgernonIn context
- Comedy
I never saw a man who looked
With such a wistful eye
Upon that little tent of blue
Which prisoners call the sky,
And at every drifting cloud that went
With sails of silver by.
The Ballad of Reading Gaol (1898), Part IIn context
- Freedom
I know not whether Laws be right,
Or whether Laws be wrong;
All that we know who lie in gaol
Is that the wall is strong;
And that each day is like a year,
A year whose days are long.
The Ballad of Reading Gaol (1898), Part VIn context
For he who lives more lives than one
More deaths than one must die.
The Ballad of Reading Gaol (1898), Part IIIIn context
- Life & Death

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