Mere color, unspoiled by meaning, and unallied with definite form, can speak to the soul in a thousand different ways. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
The soul is a terrible reality. It can be bought and sold and bartered away. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Nothing can cure the soul but the senses, just as nothing can cure the senses but the soul. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Ordinary riches can be stolen; real riches cannot. In your soul are infinitely precious things that cannot be taken from you. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Lo! with a little rod I did but touch the honey of romance — And must I lose a soul's inheritance? — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
What men call the shadow of the body is not the shadow of the body, but is the body of the soul. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“I shall show you my soul. You shall see the thing that you fancy only God can see.” — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
I threw the pearl of my soul into a cup of wine. I went down the primrose path to the sound of… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it. Resist it, and your soul grows sick with… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
I see that any materialism in life coarsens the soul, and that the hunger of the body and the appetites of the… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
In its primary aspect, a painting has no more spiritual message than an exquisite fragment of Venetian glass. The channels by which… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
The soul is born old but grows young. That is the comedy of life. And the body is born young and grows… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
The final mystery is oneself. When one has weighed the sun in the balance, and measured the steps of the moon, and… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
He is fairer than the morning star, and whiter than the moon. For his body I would give my soul, and for… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Truth in art is the unity of a thing with itself: the outward rendered expressive of the inward: the soul made incarnate:… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
I was dominated, soul, brain, and power by you. You became to me the visible incarnation of that unseen ideal whose memory… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Well, I can’t help going to see Sibyl play, even if it is only for an act. I get hungry for her… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
How sad it is!" murmured Dorian Gray with his eyes still fixed upon his own portrait. "How sad it is! I shall… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
That is what the highest criticism really is, the record of one's own soul. It is more fascinating than history, as it… — 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
When our eyes met, I felt that I was growing pale. A curious sensation of terror came over me. I knew that… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
It's tragic how few people ever 'possess their souls' before they die. 'Nothing is more rare in any man', says Emerson, 'than… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
There are three kinds of despots. There is the despot who tyrannizes over the body. There is the despot who tyrannizes over… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“Man is complete in himself. When they go into the world, the world will disagree with them. That is inevitable. The world… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Now it seems to me that love of some kind is the only possible explanation of the extraordinary amount of suffering that… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
My sweet rose, my delicate flower, my lily of lilies, it is perhaps in prison that I am going to test the… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“Because to influence a person is to give him one's own soul. He does not think his natural thoughts, or burn with… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“The things people say of a man do not alter a man. He is what he is. Public opinion is of no… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
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 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
