Passion Quotes by Oscar Wilde

“It is said that passion makes one think in a circle.”

— Oscar Wilde

A passion for pleasure is the secret of remaining young.

— Oscar Wilde

“passion makes one think in a circle”

— Oscar Wilde

A grand passion is the privelege of people who have nothing to do.

— Oscar Wilde

An inordinate passion for pleasure is the secret of remaining young

— Oscar Wilde

“The mimicry of passion is the most intolerable of all poses.”

— Oscar Wilde

I am happy in my prison of passion

— Oscar Wilde

The only difference between acaprice and a life-long passion is that the caprice lasts a little longer.

— Oscar Wilde

“Secret to remain young is to have an inordinate passion for pleasure.”

— Oscar Wilde

“Ones own soul, and the passions of one’s friends—those were the fascinating things in life.”

— Oscar Wilde

“She was usually in love with somebody, and, as her passion was never returned, she had kept all her illusions.”

— Oscar Wilde

Great passions are for the great of soul, and great events can be seen only by those who are on a level…

— Oscar Wilde

“A grande passion is the privilege of people who have nothing to do.”

— Oscar Wilde

Poets know how useful passion is for publication. Nowadays a broken heart will run to many editions.

— Oscar Wilde

She had a passion for secrecy, but she herself was merely a Sphinx without a secret.

— Oscar Wilde

I want the dead lovers of the world to hear our laughter and grow sad. I want a breath of our passion…

— Oscar Wilde

Man is a being with myriad lives and myriad sensations, a complex, multiform creature that bears within itself strange legacies of thought…

— Oscar Wilde

His sudden mad love for Sibyl Vane was a psychological phenomenon of no small interest. There was no doubt that curiosity had…

— Oscar Wilde

“I want the dead lovers of the world to hear our laughter, and grow sad. I want a breath of our passion…

— Oscar Wilde

“They spoil every romance by trying to make it last for ever. It is a meaningless word, too. The only difference between…

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Life is not governed by will or intention. Life is a question of nerves, and fibres, and slowly built-up cells in which…

— Oscar Wilde

Even now I cannot help feeling that it is a mistake to think that the passion one feels in creation is ever…

— Oscar Wilde

There was no doubt that curiosity had much to do with it, curiosity and the desire for new experiences; yet it was…

— Oscar Wilde

A beautiful woman risking everything for a mad passion. A few wild weeks of happiness cut short by a hideous, treacherous crime.…

— Oscar Wilde

There were times when it appeared to Dorian Gray that the whole of history was merely the record of his own life,…

— Oscar Wilde

It was the passions about whose origin we deceived ourselves that tyrannized most strongly over us. Our weakest motives were those of…

— Oscar Wilde

It is quite true that I have worshipped you with far more romance of feeling than a man usually gives to a…

— Oscar Wilde

“experimental method was the only method by which one could arrive at any scientific analysis of the passions; and certainly Dorian Gray…

— Oscar Wilde

With subtle and finely-wrought temperaments it is always so. Their strong passions must either bruise or bend. They either slay the man,…

— Oscar Wilde

There is no such thing as a good influence. Because to influence a person is to give him one's own soul. He…

— Oscar Wilde

She is all the great heroines of the world in one. She is more than an individual. I love her, and I…

— Oscar Wilde

Perhaps there may come into my art also, no less than into my life, a still deeper note, one of greater unity…

— Oscar Wilde

“The heart contains passion but the imagination alone contains poetry,’ says Charles Baudelaire. This too was the lesson that Theophile Gautier, most…

— Oscar Wilde

My dear boy, the people who love only once in their lives are really the shallow people. What they call their loyalty,…

— Oscar Wilde

“And so he had begun by vivisecting himself, as he had ended by vivisecting others. Human life—that appeared to him the one…

— Oscar Wilde

There was something terribly enthralling in the exercise of influence. No other activity was like it. To project one's soul into some…

— Oscar Wilde

“He loves first editions, especially of women: little girls are his passion.”

— Oscar Wilde

Behind the perfection of a man's style, must lie the passion of a man's soul.

— Oscar Wilde

Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love, but no friendship.

— Oscar Wilde

It was the passions about whose origin we deceived ourselves that tyrannized most strongly over us.

— Oscar Wilde