It is much more easy to have sympathy with suffering than it is to have sympathy with thought. Oscar Wilde More Quotes by Oscar Wilde More Quotes From Oscar Wilde Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead. Oscar Wilde inspirationallovelife If you pretend to be good, the world takes you very seriously. If you pretend to be bad, it doesn't. Such is the astounding stupidity of optimism. Oscar Wilde optimismsarcasticfunny By giving us the opinions of the uneducated, journalism keeps us in touch with the ignorance of the community. Oscar Wilde sarcasticignorancefunny Pleasure without Champagne is purely artificial. Oscar Wilde champagnepleasurewine What a pity that in life we only get our lessons when they are of no use to us. Oscar Wilde pitylessonsuse After playing Chopin, I feel as if I had been weeping over sins that I had never committed and mourning over tragedies that were not my own. Oscar Wilde mourningsintragedy Appearance blinds, whereas words reveal. Oscar Wilde honestyappearance Marriage is a long, dull meal with dessert served at the beginning. Oscar Wilde mealslongdull Literature always anticipates life. It doesn't copy it but moulds it to it's purpose. Oscar Wilde mouldpurposeliterature Science is out of the reach of morals, for her eyes are fixed upon eternal truths. Art is out of the reach of morals, for her eyes are fixed upon things beautiful and immortal and ever-changing. Oscar Wilde changebeautifulart Genius lasts longer than beauty Oscar Wilde intellectualismlastsgenius When a love comes to an end, weaklings cry, efficient ones instantly find another love, and the wise already have one in reserve. Oscar Wilde broken-heartlost-lovewise I made your sorrow mine also, that you might have help in bearing it. Oscar Wilde sorrowhelpingmight What the artist is always looking for is the mode of existence in which soul and body are one and indivisible: in which the outward is expressive of the inward: in which form reveals. Oscar Wilde inwardartistsoul-and-body I drink to separate my body from my soul. Oscar Wilde drinkbodysoul Consistency is the hallmark of the unimaginative. Oscar Wilde hallmarkconsistency Each of us has heaven and hell in him. Oscar Wilde heaven-and-hellhellheaven The husbands of very beautiful women belong to the criminal classes. Oscar Wilde husbandfearbeautiful He rides in the row at ten o clock in the morning, goes to the Opera three times a week, changes his clothes at least five times a day, and dines out every night of the season. You don't call that leading an idle life, do you? Oscar Wilde workmorningnight Life imitates art far more than art imitates Life. Oscar Wilde imitatingimitationart
