I have never met any really wicked person before. I feel rather frightened. I am so afraid he will look just like… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
After playing Chopin, I feel as if I had been weeping over sins that I had never committed and mourning over tragedies… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
The longer I live, Dorian, the more keenly I feel that whatever was good enough for our fathers is not good enough… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Sometime you will find, even as I have found, that there is no such thing as romantic experience; there are romantic memories,… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
If a friend of mine gave a feast, and did not invite me to it, I should not mind a bit. but… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Love does not traffic in a marketplace, nor use a huckster's scales. Its joy, like the joy of the intellect, is to… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Love is fed by the imagination, by which we become wiser than we know, better than we feel, nobler than we are:… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
When people talk to me about the weather, I always feel they mean something else. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
I feel that if I kept it secret it might grow in my mind (as poisonous things grow in the dark) and… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Society, civilized society at least, is never very ready to believe anything to the detriment of those who are both rich 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
You silly Arthur! If you knew anything about...anything, which you don't, you would know that I adore you. Everyone in London knows… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
The things one feels absolutely certain about are never true. That is the fatality of faith, and the lesson of romance. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Even now I cannot help feeling that it is a mistake to think that the passion one feels in creation is ever… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
If a friend of mine gave a feast, and did not invite me to it, I should not mind a bit. But… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
The public has always, and in every age, been badly brought up. They are continually asking Art to be popular, to please… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Never regret thy fall, O Icarus of the fearless flight For the greatest tragedy of them all Is never to feel the… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Pray don't talk to me about the weather, Mr. Worthing. Whenever people talk to me about the weather, I always feel quite… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
The mere mechanical technique of acting can be taught, but the spirit that is to give life to lifeless forms must be… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
The English public always feels perfectly at ease when a mediocrity is talking to it. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
After playing Chopin, I feel as if I had been weeping over sins that I had never committed, and mourning over tragedies… — 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