Ah! somehow life is bigger after all Than any painted angel could we see The God that is within us! — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Everything is dangerous, my dear fellow. If it wasn't so, life wouldn't be worth living. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
There is only one thing in life worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Political life at Washington is like political life in a suburban vestry. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
In a very ugly and sensible age, the arts borrow, not from life, but from each other. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
I treated Art as the supreme reality and life as a mere mode of fiction. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
...The two great turning-points of my life were when my father sent to Oxford, and when society sent me to prison. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Selfishness is not living as one wisheThe cynic knows the price of everything and the value of nothing. s to live, it… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“M. Zola sits down to give us a picture of the Second Empire. Who cares for the Second Empire now? It is… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“The secret seems to be the only way to become mysterious and wonderful modern life. The commonest thing gets a touch fascinating… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
To be entirely free, and at the same time entirely dominated by law, is the eternal paradox of human life. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
All art is immortal. For emotion for the sake of emotion is the aim of art, and emotion for the sake of… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“One of the greatest tragedies of my life is the death of Lucien de Rubempré… It haunts me in my moments of… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“And they are unjust to us often, for when they find life bitter they blame us for it, and when they find… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
The mere mechanical technique of acting can be taught, but the spirit that is to give life to lifeless forms must be… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Really, this horrid House of Commons quite ruins our husbands for us. I think the Lower House by far the greatest blow… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“Yet, as has been said of him before, no theory of life seemed to him to be of any importance compared with… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
I was disappointed in Niagara - most people must be disappointed in Niagara. Every American bride is taken there, and the sight… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“The aim of life is self-development. To realise one's nature perfectly-that is what each of us is here for. People are afraid… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“I believe that if one man were to live out his life fully and completely, were to give form to every feeling,… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“The great things of life are what they seem to be, and for that reason, strange as it may sound to you,… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
It gets rough being alone but just as being alone had started from some place, one will not be alone for the… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“Art never harms itself by keeping aloof from the social problems of the day: rather, by so doing, it more completely realises… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“People are afraid of themselves, nowadays. They have forgotten the highest of all duties, the duty that one owes to one's self.… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“Do you want to kill his love for you? What sort of existence will he have if you rob him of the… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Ah! realize your youth while you have it. Don’t squander the gold of your days, listening to the tedious, trying to improve… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“And health in art - what is that? It has nothing to do with a sane criticism of life. There is more… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Any place you love is the world to you”, explained the pensive Catherine Wheel, who had been attached to an old deal… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“The reason we all like to think so well of others is that we are all afraid for ourselves. The basis of… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
The great things in life are what they seem to be. And for that reason, strange as it may sound to you,… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
The books that the world calls immoral are the books that show the world its own shame. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share
Bachelors should be heavily taxed. It is not fair that some men should be happier than others — Oscar Wilde Copy Share
“Basil my dear boy puts everything that is charming in him into his work. The consequence is that he has nothing left for life… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share
I don't at all like knowing what people say of me behind my back. It makes me far too conceited. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share
“If these elements of beauty are real, the whole thing simply appeals to our sense of dramatic effect. Suddenly we find that we are… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share
“Those who find beautiful meanings in beautiful things are the cultivated. For these there is hope.” — Oscar Wilde Copy Share
Men always want to be a womans first love. Women have a more subtle instinct: What they like is to be a mans last… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share
Why is it that at a bachelor's establishment the servants invariably drink the champagne. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share
Moderation is a fatal thing. Enough is as bad as a meal. More than enough is as good as a feast. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share
Beauty is the only thing that time cannot harm. Philosophies fall away like sand, creeds follow one another, but what is beautiful is a… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share
![“And health in art - what is that? It has nothing to do with a sane criticism of life. There is more health in Baudelaire than there is in [Kingsley]. Health is the artist's recognition of the limitations of the form in which he works. It is the honour and the homage which he gives to the material…” quote by Oscar Wilde](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/f2f/oscar-wilde-16_art_and-health-in-art-what-is-that-it-has-no_1936635.jpg)
