The world is made by the singer for the dreamer. 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 inspirational love life 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 optimism sarcastic funny By giving us the opinions of the uneducated, journalism keeps us in touch with the ignorance of the community. Oscar Wilde sarcastic ignorance funny Pleasure without Champagne is purely artificial. Oscar Wilde champagne pleasure wine What a pity that in life we only get our lessons when they are of no use to us. Oscar Wilde pity lessons use 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 mourning sin tragedy Appearance blinds, whereas words reveal. Oscar Wilde honesty appearance Marriage is a long, dull meal with dessert served at the beginning. Oscar Wilde meals long dull Literature always anticipates life. It doesn't copy it but moulds it to it's purpose. Oscar Wilde mould purpose literature 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 change beautiful art Genius lasts longer than beauty Oscar Wilde intellectualism lasts genius 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-heart lost-love wise I made your sorrow mine also, that you might have help in bearing it. Oscar Wilde sorrow helping might 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 inward artist soul-and-body I drink to separate my body from my soul. Oscar Wilde drink body soul Consistency is the hallmark of the unimaginative. Oscar Wilde hallmark consistency Each of us has heaven and hell in him. Oscar Wilde heaven-and-hell hell heaven The husbands of very beautiful women belong to the criminal classes. Oscar Wilde husband fear beautiful 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 work morning night Life imitates art far more than art imitates Life. Oscar Wilde imitating imitation art
