Oscar Wilde Quotes - Page 2

The best teacher teaches by inspiring students to learn by showing them the ultimate purpose of learning.

The pure and simple truth is, the truth is never pure and simple.

Life is better when I get lost in natural beauty.

Oscar Wilde may have quipped that one can “never be overdressed or overeducated,” but Wilde did not live in our era of overeducated baristas.

[Letter to William Ward, 11 July 1878]Dear Boy, Why don’t you write to me? I don’t know what has become of you.As for me I am ruined. The law suit is going against me and I am afraid I will have to pay costs, which means leaving Oxford and doing some horrid work to earn bread. The world is too much for me.However, I have seen Greece and had some golden days of youth. I go back to Oxford immediately for viva voce and then think of rowing up the river to town with Frank Miles. Will you come? YoursOscar

If life is a business, then you are blessed with an abundance of capital which is your unconditional love.

When you look at a flower with an appreciative heart and get lost in the magical beauty, you really get a vacation from the everyday stressful life.

Am I going with time slowly or is time going with me?

Happiness is the best makeup to emphasize your inner beauty and outer glow.

If you don’t want to be foolish, don’t try to fool anyone.

She lives the poetry she cannot write.

Meditation is a wonderful way to shout down the outer noise so that you may pay attention to the universal inner message.

Start each morning with appreciation, love, and gratitude.

What you expect, it will find the way to appear.

Never forget to love your enemies and pray for their well-being.

Fashion is what one wears oneself. What is unfashionable is what other people wear.Just as vulgarity is simply the conduct of other people.And falsehoods the truths of other people.Other people are quite dreadful. The only possible society is oneself.To love oneself is the beginning of a life-long romance.

Appearance blinds, whereas words reveal.

Don’t just wish and dream—take action to make it happen.

All that matters in life is that you are happy with where you are, what you are, and with whom you are. Everything around you will be happy and smile with you. If that isn’t success, then what is?

Tact is an ability to live in the midst of ugliness without getting ugly.

If you help others to be happy, nobody can steal your happiness.

Live as though you will lose your power of love and attraction at any moment.

In life, every step you take is an adventure. Never fear to venture and never forget to enjoy.

A heart filled with love never dries out by giving away love. It is like the ocean with unending waves.

In order to get positive results, fill your mind with positive thoughts and take action.

If any belief or societal dogma prevents peaceful societal change or progress, that society will inevitably be victims of miserable violent changes.

You never help anyone without helping yourself. You never pick up anyone without making yourself stronger.

Like the sun, a teacher enlightens a mind with his love, warmth, and light.

To win, don’t compete. To love, don’t complain. To be kind, don’t judge.

But just as my philosophy had ceased to interest me as soon as it was formulated into a set of principles so, when I saw myself being imitated, I realised at once what an incubus my aesthetic personality might become if I were to be trapped within it. Imitation changes, not the impersonator, but the impersonated.

Be courageous! First win the fear of failure to win the game of life.

In life, storms come not to hurt you but to make you stronger.

Sometimes absurd logic can be amusing and heart-touching.

I am deeply in love with the world and its contents. My heartaches when I see any suffering so kindness and altruism is my ultimate way of life.

A loving heart blooms like a flower that attracts all the beauty and light of life.

Magical morning lights, dreamy sky,Smiling flowers letting us know summer is opening her eyes

Wealth is the byproduct of thoughts. To be wealthy, think of wealth.

Only your thoughts can bring you happiness.

Smile like the sun and radiate your light and make this world bright.

If you participate in a competition, you have a chance to lose. If you don’t participate, you are already a loser.

I asked the question for the best reason possible, for the only reason, indeed, that excuses anyone for asking any question - simple curiosity.

Never mind what I say. I am always saying what I shouldn't say. In fact, I usually say what I really think. A great mistake nowadays. It makes one so liable to be misunderstood.

A goal without action is like a late night dream.

How beautiful a woman can be if kindness is her true beauty.

You sing in my mind and dance in my heart.

To enjoy the magnificence of life, drink every drop of life and get drunk.

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

Only dull people are brilliant at breakfast,

I love deeply and admire the beauties of life and its expression in many different art forms. I am an aesthetic philosopher.

... Likewise, Oscar Wilde asked an English journalist to look over 'The Picture of Dorian Gray' before publication: "Will you also look after my 'wills' and 'shalls' in proof. I am Celtic in my use of these words, not English." Wilde's novel upset virtually every code of late Victorian respectability, but he had to get his modal auxiliaries just right.

Always act like you are the king of your own world that you created on the day of your birth. Enjoy your kingdom.

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

A conscious mind is the playground for thoughts and ideas and the ultimate source of personal philosophy.

A fool always finds something to complain about, and a wise person always finds something to appreciate.

If you are loving, you will attract love. If you are kind, you will attract kindness. If your heart is at peace, you will create an aura of peacefulness around you.

To be a success, plant the seeds of dreams. Then take care of those plants.

In the summer, we create memories of hot adventures so that those memories can warm-up the deep frozen winter.

If nothing excites you and nothing makes you wonder, you are going to miss all of the wonderful things that life can offer.

Your mind is your biggest enemy and your dearest friend.

Suffering often comes from the choices you make. Choose carefully.