Oscar Wilde Quotes About Dying

• When the gods wish to punish us they answer our prayers.

  Oscar Wilde

  Life, Success, Death

  An Ideal Husband act 2 (1895) See Goethe 15; T. H. Huxley 4; Modern Proverbs 14; George Bernard Shaw 16; Wilde 56

• I want my food dead. Not sick, not dying, dead.

  Oscar Wilde

  Food, Oysters, Sick

• Alas, I am dying beyond my means.

  Oscar Wilde

  Death, Wine, Mean

• And now, I am dying beyond my means. (Said while sipping champagne on his deathbed.)

  Oscar Wilde

  Death, Mean, Dying

• Few parents nowadays pay any regard to what their children say to them. The old fashioned respect for the young is fast dying out.

  Oscar Wilde

  Fashion, Children, Parent

  Oscar Wilde (2016). “Aphorisms”, p.19, Oscar Wilde

• It's either the wallpaper or me. One of us has to go. [These were his dying words.]

  Oscar Wilde

  Dying

• For he who lives more lives than one more deaths than one must die.

  Oscar Wilde

  Death, Hypocrisy, Dying

  The Ballad of Reading Gaol pt. 3, st. 37 (1898)

• The sick do not ask if the hand that smoothes their pillow is pure, nor the dying care if the lips that touch their brow have known the kiss of sin.

  Oscar Wilde

  Kissing, Hands, Sick

  Oscar Wilde (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.150, OUP Oxford

• The old-fashioned respect for the young is fast dying out.

  Oscar Wilde

  Respect, Dying, Young

  Oscar Wilde (2014). “The Wit and Wisdom of Oscar Wilde”, p.65, Courier Corporation

• I like my food dry. Not sick, not even dying, dead.

  Oscar Wilde

  Sick, Dying, Dry

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