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  • Oscar Wilde Quotes   1859
  • 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!
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Oscar Wilde Quotes , Jealous Quotes , Giving Quotes
  • The birds did not understand a single word of what he was saying, but that made no matter, for they put their heads on one side, and looked wise, which is quite as good as understanding a thing, and very much easier.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Oscar Wilde Quotes , Wise Quotes , Bird Quotes