Oscar Wilde Quotes - Page 8

Let your infectious smile infect the whole world with love and joy.

A smile is the flower that grows in the garden of the heart to beautify and attract the butterflies of life.

Those who find ugly meanings in beautiful things are corrupt without being charming. This is a fault.Those who find beautiful meanings in beautiful things are the cultivated. For these there is hope.

If your vision encourages and enables others to hope more, see more, act more, love more, and live more then you are a true pathfinder.

There are beauties all around you. All you have to do is look to reveal them.

Only dull people are brilliant at breakfast,

We travel not just to see the beauty of new places but to see our own beauty in a new environment.

Education helps you to create a new world which is uniquely yours to live and enjoy.

To get to a destination, you have to know the address. To find your purpose in life, you must set a goal, draw a map, and start the journey.

Appreciation has tremendous power. A beautiful thing is not beautiful until someone appreciates it.

There were opium-dens, where one could buy oblivion, dens of horror where the memory of old sins could be destroyed by the madness of sins that were new.

Even if you are sad, don’t forget to sing the song of love.

True love not only attracts hearts, but it also shines like the sun.

It takes respect, understanding, and forgiveness to make peace.

Philosophy is the song of conscience and music the of thoughts.

So he was queer, E.M. Forster. It wasn't his middle name (that would be 'Morgan'), but it was his orientation, his romping pleasure, his half-secret, his romantic passion. In the long-suppressed novel Maurice the title character blurts out his truth, 'I'm an unspeakable of the Oscar Wilde sort.' It must have felt that way when Forster came of sexual age in the last years of the 19th century: seriously risky and dangerously blurt-able. The public cry had caught Wilde, exposed and arrested him, broken him in prison. He was one face of anxiety to Forster; his mother was another. As long as she lived (and they lived together until she died, when he was 66), he couldn't let her know.

Oscar Wilde: "I wish I had said that." Whistler: "You will, Oscar; you will.

If you can begin with enthusiasm and confidence, you are half way to success.

Today’s thoughts will define where you will be tomorrow.

How strange! Life gets easier when we get better.

Life is a song. Your thoughts are the music. Now play beautiful music and sing a wonderful song.

Yet ruled he not long, so great had been his suffering, and so bitter the fire of his testing, for after the space of three years he died. And he who came after him ruled evilly.

Democracy is not perfect. It is an imperfection that the majority choose to support.

I can’t express the truth about reality. I can only express my feelings.

Those who find beautiful meanings in beautiful things are the cultivated. For these there is hope.

Any fool can make history, but it takes a genius to write it.

Oh my lovely moon! Touch my thirsty heart with your ocean of silvery silent love.

To add value to your life, serve others with love and kindness.

Ah! Your eyes are lighting the moon with the silvery lights of love.

The power of weapons is transient and destroys everything. The power of love is everlasting and creates all things.

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

Don’t look for a reason to be kind. Be a little more loving and kind.

To bring peace to this beautiful home we call Earth, let us all sing a song of love.

Philosophy is so interesting and intriguing that it is almost boring not to be a philosopher.

Failure comes into our lives not to fail us, but it comes to make us wiser and stronger through the lessons of life.

Cruelty against innocent helpless animals is the worst form of violence.

Giving with love is more rewarding for the giver's heart and mind than the receiver

I love foolish people because I am not enough of a fool to not love them.

The purpose of your life is to find your ultimate purpose that makes you happy. Then commit to it wholeheartedly.

Kindness! What a wonderful way to touch someone's heart.

The joy of life is in new creations, new adventures, and new feelings.

Love someone not because of what they have, love them because of what they are.

I have no words to express my sadness, grief, and frustration. I never thought Bengali people could do such a heinous and atrocious thing. My heart goes out to those innocent victims and their families.

Even if your pockets are empty, never forget to fill your heart with love.

I don’t believe in solipsism, but I also believe that if I am not existing—nothing exists for me.

If any religion allows you to torture animals or sacrifice an animal for the sake of procuring god’s favor, then that is not a religion. It is an absurd practice of inhumanity.

I am not brilliant. I am curious and persistent.

She...can talk brillantly upon any subject provided she knows nothing about it.

My wallpaper and I are fighting a duel to the death. One or the other of us has to go.

Namaste means that whatever is precious and beautiful in me honors whatever is precious and beautiful in you.

A man's life is of more value than a woman's. It has larger issues, wider scope, greater ambitions. Our lives revolve in curves of emotions. It is upon lines of intellect that a man's life progresses. I have just learnt this, and much else with it, from Lord Goring. And I will not spoil your life for you, nor see you spoil it as a sacrifice to me, a useless sacrifice.

The more you get lost in love, the more love you will find to enjoy and appreciate.

Always focus on what is important—not what is urgent.

Great music is a great remedy for depression, but you have to drink it in with your heart and mind.

Oh bless Speranza, for giving her son such a preposterous name as Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde.

To open a closed door, use kindness as your key.

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

The essential attributes of a great leader are a positive attitude, humility, and gratitude.

True education is more powerful than money or weapons. It is the key to a magical land where nothing is impossible.