Oscar Wilde

For he who lives more lives than one more deaths than one must die. ↗

— Oscar Wilde

#life #death

And what sort of lives do these people, who pose as being moral, lead themselves? My dear fellow, you forget that we are in the native land of the hypocrite. ↗

— Oscar Wilde

#moral #hypocrisy

And alien tears will fill for him pity's long broken urn. For his mourners will all be outcast men, and outcasts always mourn. ↗

— Oscar Wilde

#men

It was not intended as a compliment. It was a confession. Now that I have made it, something seems to have gone out of me. Perhaps one should never put one's worship into words. ↗

— Oscar Wilde

#worship #worship

If one plays good music, people don't listen, and if one plays bad music people don't talk. ↗

— Oscar Wilde

#music

The amount of women in London who flirt with their own husbands is perfectly scandalous. It looks so bad. It is simply washing one's clean linen in public. ↗

— Oscar Wilde

#london

Oh, don't cough, Ernest. When one is dictating one should speak fluently and not cough. Besides, I don't know how to spell a cough. ↗

— Oscar Wilde

#humor

In the common world of fact the wicked were not punished, nor the good rewarded. Success was given to the strong, failure thrust upon the weak. That was all. ↗

— Oscar Wilde

#ethics

Literature always anticipates life. It doesn't copy it but moulds it to it's purpose. ↗

— Oscar Wilde

#writer #life

What fire does not destroy, it hardens ↗

— Oscar Wilde

#spiritual-growth #inspirational