Oscar Wilde Quotes About Waiting

• If a thing is worth doing, it is worth doing well. If it is worth having, it is worth waiting for. If it is worth attaining, it is worth fighting for. If it is worth experiencing, it is worth putting aside time for.

  Oscar Wilde

  Fighting, Waiting, Wells

• If you are not long, I will wait for you all my life.

  Oscar Wilde

  Love, Long, Waiting

• When you really want love you will find it waiting for you.

  Oscar Wilde

  Love, Happy Valentines Day, Waiting

  Oscar Wilde (1961). “DE PROFUNDIS”, p.10, VICTORIA INSTITUTIONS

• Youth! There is nothing like youth. The middle-aged are mortgaged to Life. The old are in Life's lumber-room. But youth is the Lord of Life. Youth has a kingdom waiting for it. Every one is born a king, and most people die in exile.

  Oscar Wilde

  Time, Kings, People

  Oscar Wilde (2004). “The Best of Oscar Wilde: Selected Plays and Writings”, p.142, Penguin

• We quaff the cup of life with eager haste without draining it, instead of which it only overflows the brim - objects press around us, filling the mind with the throng of desires that wait upon them, so that we have no room for the thoughts of death.

  Oscar Wilde

  Life, Death, Waiting

• It's not hard to get the ideas when they come. They just come... it's painful waiting for them.

  Oscar Wilde

  Ideas, Waiting, Painful

• There are works which wait, and which one does not understand for a long time; the reason is that they bring answers to questions which have not yet been raised; for the question often arrives a terribly long time after the answer.

  Oscar Wilde

  Long, Waiting, Doe

  Quoted in Andre Gide, Oscar Wilde: In Memoriam (1910)

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