Oscar Wilde Quotes About Pleasure

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  • God knows; I won't be an Oxford don anyhow. I'll be a poet, a writer, a dramatist. Somehow or other I'll be famous, and if not famous, I'll be notorious. Or perhaps I'll lead the life of pleasure for a time and then—who knows?—rest and do nothing. What does Plato say is the highest end that man can attain here below? To sit down and contemplate the good. Perhaps that will be the end of me too.

    "In Victorian Days and Other Papers" by Sir David Oswald Hunter-Blair, New York: Longmans, (p. 122), 1939.
  • Believe me, no civilized man ever regrets a pleasure, and no uncivilized man ever knows what a pleasure is.

    Oscar Wilde, Russell Jackson, Joseph Bristow, Ian Small (2000). “The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: The picture of Dorian Gray : the 1890 and 1891 texts”, p.236, Oxford University Press on Demand
  • I don’t regret for a single moment having lived for pleasure. I did it to the full, as one should do everything that one does. There was no pleasure I did not experience.

    Oscar Wilde, Russell Jackson, Ian Small (2000). “The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: De profundis, "Epistola : in carcere et vinculis"”, p.109, Oxford University Press on Demand
  • Pleasure is the only thing one should live for, nothing ages like happiness.

    Oscar Wilde (2016). “Miscellanies”, p.173, Oscar Wilde
  • I have never killed anyone, but I have often read about some guy getting his ass taken out with great pleasure

  • Perhaps in nearly every joy, as certainly in every pleasure, cruelty has its place.

    Oscar Wilde, Russell Jackson, Joseph Bristow, Ian Small (2000). “The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: The picture of Dorian Gray : the 1890 and 1891 texts”, p.105, Oxford University Press on Demand
  • If property had simply pleasures, we could stand it; but its duties make it unbearable. In the interest of the rich we must get rid of it.

    Oscar Wilde (2014). “Miscellaneous Aphorisms: The Soul of Man”, p.52, Simon and Schuster
  • Human life--that appeared to him the one thing worth investigating. Compared to it there was nothing else of any value. It was true that as one watched life in its curious crucible of pain and pleasure, one could not wear over one's face a mask of glass, nor keep the sulphurous fumes from troubling the brain and making the imagination turbid with monstrous fancies and misshapen dreams.

    Oscar Wilde (2015). “The Picture of Dorian Gray (with an Essay by Jules Barbey D'Aurevilly)”, p.37, Mondial
  • The secret to life is to enjoy the pleasure of being terribly, terribly deceived.

  • I like hearing myself talk. It is one of my greatest pleasures. I often have long conversations all by myself. Sometimes I am so clever I don't understand a single word of what I am saying.

    Oscar Wilde, Alvin Redman (1959). “The Wit and Humor of Oscar Wilde”, p.143, Courier Corporation
  • Dammit Sir, it's your duty to get married. You can't always be living for pleasure!

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  • On an occasion of this kind it becomes more than a moral duty to speak one's mind. It becomes a pleasure.

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    'The Importance of Being Earnest' (1895) act 2
  • You must have a cigarette. A cigarette is the perfect type of a perfect pleasure. It is exquisite, and it leaves one unsatisfied. What more can one want?

    'The Picture of Dorian Gray' (1891) ch. 6
  • Pleasure is Nature's test, her sign of approval.

    Oscar Wilde (2007). “The Collected Works of Oscar Wilde”, p.56, Wordsworth Editions
  • I adore simple pleasures. They are the last refuge of the complex.

    The Picture of Dorian Gray ch. 2 (1891)
  • Simple pleasures are the last healthy refuge in a complex world.

  • A passion for pleasure is the secret of remaining young.

    Oscar Wilde (2012). “The Wit and Humor of Oscar Wilde”, p.180, Courier Corporation
  • Illusion is the first of all pleasures.

    Oscar Wilde “The Picture of Dorian Gray - and more”, Eighty Pence Books
  • There was something terribly enthralling in the exercise of influence. No other activity was like it. To project one's soul into some gracious form, and let it tarry there for a moment; to hear one's own intellectual views echoed back to one with all the added music of passion and youth; to convey one's temperament into another as though it were a subtle fluid or a strange perfume: there was a real joy in that - perhaps the most satisfying joy left to us in an age so limited and vulgar as our own, an age grossly carnal in its pleasures, and grossly common in its aims.

    Oscar Wilde, General Press (2016). “The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: Novel, Short Stories, Poetry, Essays and Plays”, p.36, GENERAL PRESS
  • It is better to repent a sin than regret the loss of a pleasure.

  • Pleasures may turn a heart to stone, riches may make it callous, but sorrows cannot break it. Hearts live by being wounded.

    Oscar Wilde, Peter Raby (2008). “The Importance of Being Earnest and Other Plays: Lady Windermere's Fan; Salome; A Woman of No Importance; An Ideal Husband; The Importance of Being Earnest”, p.151, Oxford Paperbacks
  • Pleasure is Nature's test, her sign of approval. When man is happy, he is in harmony with himself and his environment.

    Oscar Wilde (2012). “Epigrams”, p.94, BoD – Books on Demand
  • I tremble with pleasure when I think that on the very day of my leaving prison both the laburnum and the lilac will be blooming in the gardens, and that I shall see the wind stir into restless beauty the swaying gold of the one, and make the other toss the pale purple of its plumes, so that all the air shall be Arabia for me.

    Oscar Wilde (1961). “DE PROFUNDIS”, p.33, VICTORIA INSTITUTIONS
  • Life cheats us with shadows. We ask it for pleasure. It gives it to us with bitterness and disappointment in its train.

    Oscar Wilde (2007). “Epigrams of Oscar Wilde”, p.67, Wordsworth Editions
  • To stake all one's life on a single moment, to risk everything on one throw, whether the stake be power or pleasure, I care not - there is no weakness in that.

    Oscar Wilde (2015). “An Ideal Husband”, p.40, Sheba Blake Publishing
  • I find that forgiving one's enemies is a most curious morbid pleasure; perhaps I should check it.

    Oscar Wilde (2014). “The Wit and Wisdom of Oscar Wilde”, p.145, Courier Corporation
  • Pleasure without Champagne is purely artificial.

  • What between the duties expected of one during one's lifetime, and the duties exacted from one after one's death, land has ceased to be either a profit or a pleasure. It gives one position, and prevents one from keeping it up. That's all that can be said about land.

    Oscar Wilde (2016). “The Importance of Being Earnest: Revised Edition”, p.27, Bloomsbury Publishing
  • I am a man of simple pleasures. The best suits me perfectly.

  • The body sins once, and has done with its sin, for action is a mode of purification. Nothing remains then but the recollection of a pleasure, or the luxury of a regret.

    Oscar Wilde (2015). “The Picture of Dorian Gray (Diversion Classics)”, p.23, Diversion Books
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