--- title: "8 Fancy Quotes By Oscar Wilde" description: "8 Fancy quotes by Oscar Wilde. Plus more from Oscar Wilde and more Fancy sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/446/oscar-wilde-16_art_there-are-few-of-us-who-have-not-sometim_39386.jpg" --- > [There are few of us who have not sometimes wakened before dawn, either after one of those dreamless nights that make one…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/oscar-wilde/there-are-few-of-us-who-have-not-sometimes-wakened-before-dawn-either/) [Oscar Wilde](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/oscar-wilde/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/446/oscar-wilde-16_art_there-are-few-of-us-who-have-not-sometim_39386.jpg) > [In fact, the whole of Japan is a pure invention. There is no such country, there are no such people… The Japanese…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/oscar-wilde/in-fact-the-whole-of-japan-is-a-pure-invention-there-is-no-such/) [Oscar Wilde](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/oscar-wilde/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e22/oscar-wilde-16_art_in-fact-the-whole-of-japan-is-a-pure-inv_276392.jpg) > [I played with an idea, and grew willful; tossed it into the air; transformed it; let it escape and recaptured it; made…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/oscar-wilde/i-played-with-an-idea-and-grew-willful-tossed-it-into-the-air/) [Oscar Wilde](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/oscar-wilde/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/fb6/oscar-wilde-16_air_i-played-with-an-idea-and-grew-willful-t_784756.jpg) > [Life is a question of nerves, and fibres, and slowly built-up cells in which thought hides itself and passion has its dreams.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/oscar-wilde/life-is-a-question-of-nerves-and-fibres-and-slowly-built-up-cells-in/) [Oscar Wilde](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/oscar-wilde/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a8b/oscar-wilde-16_cadence_life-is-a-question-of-nerves-and-fibres_1171643.jpg) > [All charming people, I fancy, are spoiled. It is the secret of their attraction.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/oscar-wilde/all-charming-people-i-fancy-are-spoiled-it-is-the-secret-of-their/) [Oscar Wilde](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/oscar-wilde/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d5d/oscar-wilde-16_attraction_all-charming-people-i-fancy-are-spoiled_1301811.jpg) > [“Look at the moon. How strange the moon seems! She is like a woman rising from a tomb. She is like a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/oscar-wilde/look-at-the-moon-how-strange-the-moon-seems-she-is-like-a-woman/) [Oscar Wilde](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/oscar-wilde/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/590/oscar-wilde-16_fancy_look-at-the-moon-how-strange-the-moon-se_1765120.jpg) > [Indeed, so far from being humorous, the male American is the most abnormally serious creature who ever existed.. It is only fair…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/oscar-wilde/indeed-so-far-from-being-humorous-the-male-american-is-the-most/) [Oscar Wilde](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/oscar-wilde/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ab4/oscar-wilde-16_abnormal_indeed-so-far-from-being-humorous-the-ma_2607955.jpg) > [Human life--that appeared to him the one thing worth investigating. Compared to it there was nothing else of any value. It was…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/oscar-wilde/human-life-that-appeared-to-him-the-one-thing-worth-investigating/) [Oscar Wilde](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/oscar-wilde/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/57f/oscar-wilde-16_brain_human-life-that-appeared-to-him-the-one_2941187.jpg) ## Other authors on Fancy ## More by Oscar Wilde > [How else but through a broken heart may Lord Christ enter in?](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/oscar-wilde/how-else-but-through-a-broken-heart-may-lord-christ-enter-in/) [Oscar Wilde](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/oscar-wilde/) > [The books that the world calls immoral are the books that show the world its own shame.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/oscar-wilde/the-books-that-the-world-calls-immoral-are-the-books-that-show-the/) [Oscar Wilde](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/oscar-wilde/) > [Bachelors should be heavily taxed. It is not fair that some men should be happier than others](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/oscar-wilde/bachelors-should-be-heavily-taxed-it-is-not-fair-that-some-men-should/) [Oscar Wilde](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/oscar-wilde/) > [Who, being loved, is poor?](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/oscar-wilde/who-being-loved-is-poor/) [Oscar Wilde](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/oscar-wilde/) > [“Basil my dear boy puts everything that is charming in him into his work. The consequence is that he has nothing left for life…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/oscar-wilde/basil-my-dear-boy-puts-everything-that-is-charming-in-him-into-his/) [Oscar Wilde](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/oscar-wilde/) > [Anybody can be good in the country](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/oscar-wilde/anybody-can-be-good-in-the-country/) [Oscar Wilde](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/oscar-wilde/) > [I don't at all like knowing what people say of me behind my back. It makes me far too conceited.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/oscar-wilde/i-don-t-at-all-like-knowing-what-people-say-of-me-behind-my-back-it/) [Oscar Wilde](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/oscar-wilde/) > [“Alles Populäre ist falsch.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/oscar-wilde/alles-popul-re-ist-falsch/) [Oscar Wilde](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/oscar-wilde/) > [“If these elements of beauty are real, the whole thing simply appeals to our sense of dramatic effect. Suddenly we find that we are…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/oscar-wilde/if-these-elements-of-beauty-are-real-the-whole-thing-simply-appeals/) [Oscar Wilde](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/oscar-wilde/) > [To love one's self is the beginning of a life-long romance](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/oscar-wilde/to-love-one-s-self-is-the-beginning-of-a-life-long-romance/) [Oscar Wilde](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/oscar-wilde/) > [“Those who find beautiful meanings in beautiful things are the cultivated. For these there is hope.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/oscar-wilde/those-who-find-beautiful-meanings-in-beautiful-things-are-the/) [Oscar Wilde](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/oscar-wilde/) > [Men always want to be a womans first love. Women have a more subtle instinct: What they like is to be a mans last…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/oscar-wilde/men-always-want-to-be-a-womans-first-love-women-have-a-more-subtle/) [Oscar Wilde](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/oscar-wilde/) > [Why is it that at a bachelor's establishment the servants invariably drink the champagne.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/oscar-wilde/why-is-it-that-at-a-bachelor-s-establishment-the-servants-invariably/) [Oscar Wilde](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/oscar-wilde/) > [Moderation is a fatal thing. Enough is as bad as a meal. More than enough is as good as a feast.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/oscar-wilde/moderation-is-a-fatal-thing-enough-is-as-bad-as-a-meal-more-than/) [Oscar Wilde](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/oscar-wilde/) > [Beauty is the only thing that time cannot harm. Philosophies fall away like sand, creeds follow one another, but what is beautiful is a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/oscar-wilde/beauty-is-the-only-thing-that-time-cannot-harm-philosophies-fall-away/) [Oscar Wilde](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/oscar-wilde/) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/fancy/oscar-wilde/#itemlist", "name": "8 Fancy Quotes By Oscar Wilde", "numberOfItems": 8, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "There are few of us who have not sometimes wakened before dawn, either after one of those dreamless nights that make one almost enamoured of death, or one of those nights of horror and misshapen joy, when through the chambers of the brain sweep phantoms more terrible than reality itself, and instinct with that vivid life that lurks in all grotesques, and that lends to Gothic art its enduring vitality, this art being, one might fancy, especially the art of those whose minds have been troubled with the malady of reverie.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Oscar Wilde" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/oscar-wilde/there-are-few-of-us-who-have-not-sometimes-wakened-before-dawn-either/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/446/oscar-wilde-16_art_there-are-few-of-us-who-have-not-sometim_39386.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/446/oscar-wilde-16_art_there-are-few-of-us-who-have-not-sometim_39386.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/446/oscar-wilde-16_art_there-are-few-of-us-who-have-not-sometim_39386.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“There are few of us who have not sometimes wakened before dawn, either after one of those dreamless nights…” — Oscar Wilde", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 2, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "In fact, the whole of Japan is a pure invention. 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