Oscar Wilde Quotes, Fun Quotes, Fire Quotes

The one advantage of playing with fire...is that no one ever gets singed. It is the people who don't know how to play with it who get burned up.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Oscar Wilde Quotes , Fun Quotes , Fire Quotes

Tread Lightly, she is near Under the snow, Speak gently, she can hear The daisies grow.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Oscar Wilde Quotes , Snow Quotes , Speak Quotes

Man is a being with myriad lives and myriad sensations, a complex, multiform creature that bears within itself strange legacies of thought and passion, and whose very flesh is tainted with the monstrous maladies of the dead.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Oscar Wilde Quotes , Passion Quotes , Men Quotes

Actors are so fortunate. They can choose whether they will appear in tragedy or in comedy, whether they will suffer or make merry, laugh or shed tears. But in real life it is different. Most men and women are forced to perform parts for which they have no qualifications. Our Guildensterns play Hamlet for us, and our Hamlets have to jest like Prince Hal. The world is a stage, but the play is badly cast.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Oscar Wilde Quotes , Real Quotes , Men Quotes

The exquisite art of idleness, one of the most important things that any University can teach.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Oscar Wilde Quotes , Art Quotes , College Quotes

Sin is the only real colour element left in modern life.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Oscar Wilde Quotes , Real Quotes , Modern Life Quotes

Caricature is the tribute which mediocrity pays to genius.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Oscar Wilde Quotes , Genius Quotes , Mediocrity Quotes

An idea that isn't risky is hardly worth calling an idea.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Oscar Wilde Quotes , Ideas Quotes

Art creates an incomparable and unique effect, and, having done so, passes on to other things. Nature, upon the other hand, forgetting that that imitation can be made the sincerest form of insult, keeps on repeating this effect until we all become absolutely wearied of it.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Oscar Wilde Quotes , Art Quotes , Unique Quotes

I was dominated, soul, brain, and power by you. You became to me the visible incarnation of that unseen ideal whose memory haunts us artists like an exquisite dream.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Oscar Wilde Quotes , Dream Quotes , Memories Quotes

I like hearing myself talk. It is one of my greatest pleasures. I often have long conversations all by myself. Sometimes I am so clever I don't understand a single word of what I am saying.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Oscar Wilde Quotes , Clever Quotes , Long Quotes

The only proper intoxication is conversation.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Oscar Wilde Quotes , Conversation Quotes , Intoxication Quotes

Well I won't argue about the matter. You always want to argue about things. That is exactly what things were originally made for.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Oscar Wilde Quotes , Want Quotes , Matter Quotes

Be moderate in all things, including moderation.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Oscar Wilde Quotes , Moderation Quotes , All Things Quotes

The best one can say of modern creative art is that it is just a little less vulgar than reality.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Oscar Wilde Quotes , Art Quotes , Reality Quotes

It was the passions about whose origin we deceived ourselves that tyrannized most strongly over us.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Oscar Wilde Quotes , Passion Quotes

Pray don't talk to me about the weather, Mr. Worthing. Whenever people talk to me about the weather, I always feel quite certain that they mean something else. And that makes me quite nervous.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Oscar Wilde Quotes , Mean Quotes , Weather Quotes

To be in love is to surpass one's self.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Oscar Wilde Quotes , Life Quotes , Love Is Quotes

To regret one’s own experiences is to arrest one’s own development. To deny one’s own experiences is to put a lie into the lips of one’s own life. It is no less than a denial of the soul.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Oscar Wilde Quotes , Regret Quotes , Lying Quotes

Now it seems to me that love of some kind is the only possible explanation of the extraordinary amount of suffering that there is in the world. I cannot conceive of any other explanation. I am convinced that there is no other, and that if the world has indeed, as I have said, been built of sorrow, it has been built by the hands of love, because in no other way could the soul of man, for whom the world was made, reach the full stature of its perfection. Pleasure for the beautiful body, but pain for the beautiful soul.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Oscar Wilde Quotes , Beautiful Quotes , Pain Quotes