“There was a look of fear in his eyes, such as people have when they are suddenly awakened. His” — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“The reason we all like to think so well of others is that we are all afraid for ourselves. The basis of… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Do not be afraid of the past. If people tell you that it is irrevocable, do not believe them. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
To exercise power costs effort and demands courage. That is why so many fail to assert rights to which they are perfectly… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Yes, there is a terrible moral in 'Dorian Gray' - a moral which the prurient will not be able to find in… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“People are afraid of themselves, nowadays. They have forgotten the highest of all duties, the duty that one owes to one's self.” — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“I am afraid it is quite clear, Cecily, that neither of us is engaged to be married to any one.” — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“I am afraid that she is a coquette, for she is always flirting with the wind.” — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“But he felt afraid of him, and ashamed of being afraid. Why had it been left for a stranger to reveal him… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
It is only through Art and through Art only that we can realize our perfection; Through Art and art only that we… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Don't be afraid. There are exquisite things in store for you. This is merely the beginning. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
So much had been surrendered! And to such little purpose! There had been mad wilful rejections, monstrous forms of self-torture and self-denial,… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“People are afraid of themselves, nowadays. They have forgotten the highest of all duties, the duty that one owes to one's self.… — 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
