5 Oscar Wilde Quotes on Happiness

Oscar Wilde quotes on happiness

97. A man can be happy with any woman, as long as he does not love her.

208. It is sweet to dance to violins When Love and Life are fair: To dance to flutes, to dance to lutes Is delicate and rare: But it is not sweet with nimble feet To dance upon the air!

236. Illusion is the first of all pleasures.

241. Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go.

249. The same lesson [of the pessimistic pleasure-seeker] was taught by the very powerful and very desolate philosophy of Oscar Wilde. It is the carpe diem religion; but the carpe diem religion is not the religion of happy people, but of very unhappy people. Great joy does not gather the rosebuds while it may; its eyes are fixed on the immortal rose which Dante saw.