If only the picture could grow old, and I stay young. For that...for that, I would give my SOUL for that. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Behind the perfection of a man's style, must lie the passion of a man's soul. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
The final mystery is oneself... Who can calculate the orbit of his own soul. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Great passions are for the great of soul, and great events can be seen only by those who are on a level… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
By the artificial separation of soul and body men have invented a Realism that is vulgar and an Idealism that is void. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
I will not bare my soul to their shallow prying eyes. My heart shall never be put under their microscope. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Sins of the flesh are nothing. They are maladies for physicians to cure, if they should be cured. Sins of the soul… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
How strange a thing this is! The Priest telleth me that the Soul is worth all the gold in the world, and… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Then I feel, Harry, that I have given away my whole soul to someone who treats it as if it were a… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Ah! happy day they whose hearts can break And peace of pardon win! How else may man make straight his plan And… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
What the artist is always looking for is the mode of existence in which soul and body are one and indivisible: in… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
LORD ILLINGWORTH: The soul is born old but grows young. That is the comedy of life. MRS ALLONBY: And the body is… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Shakespeare might have met Rosencrantz and Guildenstern in the white streets of London, or seen the serving-men of rival houses bite their… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
To be really mediæval one should have no body. To be really modern one should have no soul. To be really Greek… — 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
