Oscar Wilde Quotes About Moon

• The moon in her chariot of pearl

  Oscar Wilde

  Moon, Pearls, Chariots

  Oscar Wilde (2012). “The Picture of Dorian Gray and Other Short Stories”, p.357, Cosimo, Inc.

• The final mystery is oneself. When one has weighed the sun in the balance, and measured the steps of the moon, and mapped out the seven heavens star by star, there still remains oneself. Who can calculate the orbit of his own soul?

  Oscar Wilde

  Stars, Moon, Heaven

  Letter to Alfred Douglas, Jan. - Mar. 1897

• With freedom, books, flowers, and the moon, who could not be happy?

  Oscar Wilde

  Happiness, Flower, Book

  Oscar Wilde, Isobel Murray (1999). “The Soul of Man, and Prison Writings”, p.128, Oxford University Press, USA

• For us there is only one season, the season of sorrow. The very sun and moon seem taken from us.

  Oscar Wilde

  Grief, Taken, Moon

  Oscar Wilde, Russell Jackson, Ian Small (2000). “The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: De profundis, "Epistola : in carcere et vinculis"”, p.82, Oxford University Press on Demand

• Beauty is a form of Genius--is higher, indeed, than Genius, as it needs no explanation. It is one of the great facts of the world, like sunlight, or springtime, or the reflection in the dark waters of that silver shell we call the moon. It cannot be questioned. It has divine right of sovereignty. It makes princes of those who have it.

  Oscar Wilde

  Dark, Reflection, Moon

  Oscar Wilde, General Press (2016). “The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: Novel, Short Stories, Poetry, Essays and Plays”, p.26, GENERAL PRESS

• Beauty ...is of the great facts in the world like sunlight, or springtime, or the reflection in dark water of that silver shell we call the moon.

  Oscar Wilde

  Art, Dark, Reflection

  Oscar Wilde (2007). “Epigrams of Oscar Wilde”, p.208, Wordsworth Editions

• And all the woods are alive with the murmur and sound of Spring,
  And the rose-bud breaks into pink on the climbing briar,
  And the crocus-bed is a quivering moon of fire
  Girdled round with the belt of an amethyst ring.

  Oscar Wilde

  Spring, Moon, Fire

  Oscar Wilde (2014). “Poems”, p.37, Simon and Schuster

• He is fairer than the morning star, and whiter than the moon. For his body I would give my soul, and for his love I would surrender heaven.

  Oscar Wilde

  Morning, Stars, Romantic Love

• I see the moon like a clipped piece of silver. Like gilded bees the stars cluster round her.

  Oscar Wilde

  Stars, Science, Moon

  Oscar Wilde, General Press (2016). “The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: Novel, Short Stories, Poetry, Essays and Plays”, p.665, GENERAL PRESS

• Death is a great price to pay for a red rose“, cried the Nightingale, "and Life is very dear to all. “ It is pleasant to sit in the green wood, and watch the Sun in his chariot of gold, and the Moon in her chariot of pearl. Sweet is the scent oft he hawthorn, and sweet are the bluebells that hide in the valley, and the heather that blows on the hill. Yet Love is better than Life, and what is the heart of a bird compared to the heart of a man?

  Oscar Wilde

  Sweet, Heart, Blow

  Oscar Wilde (2008). “Complete Fairy Tales of Oscar Wilde”, p.24, Penguin

• Far away beyond the pine-woods,' he answered, in a low dreamy voice, 'there is a little garden. There the grass grows long and deep, there are the great white stars of the hemlock flower, there the nightingale sings all night long. All night long he sings, and the cold, crystal moon looks down, and the yew-tree spreads out its giant arms over the sleepers.

  Oscar Wilde

  Stars, Flower, Moon

  Oscar Wilde (1997). “Collected Works of Oscar Wilde: The Plays, the Poems, the Stories and the Essays Including De Profundis”, p.205, Wordsworth Editions

• Look at the moon. How strange the moon seems! She is like a woman rising from a tomb. She is like a dead woman. One might fancy she was looking for dead things.

  Oscar Wilde

  Moon, Looks, Rising

  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.65, OUP Oxford

• Marco Polo had seen the inhabitants of Zipangu place rose-colored pearls in the mouths of the dead. A sea-monster had been enamoured of the pearl that the diver brought to King Perozes, and had slain the thief, and mourned for seven moons over its loss.

  Oscar Wilde

  Kings, Loss, Moon

  Oscar Wilde (1909). “Complete Writings of Oscar Wilde”

• For us there is only one season, the season of sorrow. The very sun and moon seem taken from us. Outside, the day may be blue and gold, but the light that creeps down through the thickly-muffled glass of the small iron-barred window beneath which one sits is grey and niggard. It is always twilight in one's cell, as it is always twilight in one's heart. And in the sphere of thought, no less than in the sphere of time, motion is no more.

  Oscar Wilde

  Sad, Taken, Twilight

  Oscar Wilde, Russell Jackson, Ian Small (2000). “The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: De profundis, "Epistola : in carcere et vinculis"”, p.82, Oxford University Press on Demand

• And suddenly the moon withdraws her sickle from the lightening skies, and to her sombre cavern flies, wrapped in a veil of yellow gauze.

  Oscar Wilde

  Moon, Sky, Yellow

  Oscar Wilde (2015). “Salome”, p.26, Broadview Press

• My Salome is a mystic the sister of Salammbô a Saint Thérèse who worships the moon.

  Oscar Wilde

  Moon, Saint, Worship

  Oscar Wilde (2003). “Salome”, p.172, Editions du héron

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