“Everybody one meets is a paradox nowadays. It is a great bore. It makes society so obvious.” — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
The way of paradoxes is the way of truth. To test Reality we must see it on the tight-rope. — 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
In this world there are only two tragedies. One is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“What the paradox was to me in the sphere of thought, perversity became to me in the sphere of passion. Desire, at… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“Paradox though it may seem - and paradoxes are always dangerous things - it is none the less true that Life imitates… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Paradoxically though it may seem, it is none the less true that life imitates art far more than art imitates life. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
I played with an idea, and grew willful; tossed it into the air; transformed it; let it escape and recaptured it; made… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“In this world there are only two tragedies. One is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it. (Mr.… — 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
