It is in the brain, and the brain only, that the great sins of the world take place also. You, Mr. Gray,… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Action is limited and relative. Unlimited and absolute is the vision of him who sits at ease and watches, who walks in… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
If one were to live his life fully and completely were to give form to every feeling, expression to every thought, reality… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Palermo was lovely. The most beautifully situated town in the world - it dreams away its life in the Conca d'Oro, the… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Life is a question of nerves, and fibres, and slowly built-up cells in which thought hides itself and passion has its dreams.… — 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
“Out of the unreal shadows of the night comes back the real life that we had known” — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Indeed, as any one who has ever worked among the poor knows only too well, the brotherhood of man is no mere… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
The supreme object of life is to live. Few people live. It is true life only to realize one's own perfection, to… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
You have killed my love. You used to stir my imagination. Now you don't even stir my curiosity. You simply produce no… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
You can hardly imagine that I and Lord Bracknell would dream of allowing our only daughter - a girl brought up with… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
The one person who has more illusions than the dreamer is the man of action. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
The basis of action is lack of imagination. It is the last resource of those who know not how to dream. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
The brotherhood of man is not a mere poet’s dream: it is a most depressing and humiliating reality. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“You became to me the visible incarnation of that unseen ideal whose memory haunts us artists like an exquisite dream.” — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Human life--that appeared to him the one thing worth investigating. Compared to it there was nothing else of any value. It was… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“I can now recreate life in a way that was hidden from me, before.'A dream of form in days of thought:” — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“sought to imprison within his brain some curious dream from which he feared he might awake.” — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
The true critic is he who bears within himself the dreams and ideas and feelings of myriad generations, and to whom no… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Wisdom is to have dreams big enough not to lose sight when we pursue them. — 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 Image
Bachelors should be heavily taxed. It is not fair that some men should be happier than others — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“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 Image
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 Image
“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 Image
“Those who find beautiful meanings in beautiful things are the cultivated. For these there is hope.” — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
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 Image
