513 Quotes About Oscar-wilde

Indeed, as a rule, everybody turns out to be somebody else.

I can write no stately proemAs a prelude to my lay;From a poet to a poemI would dare to say.For if of these fallen petalsOne to you seem fair,Love will waft it till it settlesOn your hair.And when wind and winter hardenAll the loveless land,It will whisper of the garden,You will understand.

I have forgotten all about my school days. I have a vague impression that they were detestable.

Ah! that is the great thing in life, to live the truth.

Within this restless, hurried, modern worldWe took our hearts' full pleasure - You and I,And now the white sails of our ship are furled,And spent the lading of our argosy.Wherefore my cheeks before their time are wan,For very weeping is my gladness fled,Sorrow has paled my young mouth's vermilion,And Ruin draws the curtains of my bed.But all this crowded life has been to theeNo more than lyre, or lute, or subtle spellOf viols, or the music of the seaThat sleeps, a mimic echo, in the shell.

Beautiful untrue things are even more beautiful when they're true.

England is seen at its worst when it has to deal with men like Wilde. In Germany Wilde and Byron are appreciated as authors: in England they still go pecking about their love-affairs. Anyone who calls a book ‘immoral’ or 'moral’ should be caned. A book by itself can be neither. It is only a question of the morality or immorality of the reader. But the English approach all questions of vice with such a curious mixture of curiosity and fear that it’s impossible to deal with them.

Ben gerçekten evlilik teklifinde romantik olan hiçbir şey göremiyorum. Âşık olmak çok romantiktir. Ama resmi bir evlilik teklifinde hiç romantik bir taraf yok. Neticede, cevap evet olabilir. Her zaman da böyle olur, sanırım. Bundan sonra tüm heyecan sona erer. Aşkın en önemli özelliği belirsizliğidir.

Those were my last words. To be listed in some book of quotations, alphabetically after Wilde:Wilde, Oscar (of the wallpaper in his bedroom): “Either it goes, or I do.”Wilding, Adelyn (of the gum splooches on the sidewalk): “Ditto.”