Things are because we see them, and what we see, and how we see it, depends on the Arts that influenced us.… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“Ordinary people waited till life disclosed to them its secrets, but to the few, to the elect, the mysteries of life were… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“You don't seem to realise, that in married life three is company and two is none.” — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Life cheats us with shadows. We ask it for pleasure. It gives it to us with bitterness and disappointment in its train. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
You are more to me than any of them has any idea; you are the atmosphere of beauty through which I see… — 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
Anybody can write a three-volume novel. It merely requires a complete ignorance of both life and literature. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“I have grown to love secrecy. It seems to be the one thing that can make modern life mysterious or marvellous to… — 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
In spite of the roaring of the young lions at the Union, and the screaming of the rabbits in the home of… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“I believe that if one man were to live out his life fully and completely, were to give form to every feeling,… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
It is sometimes said that the tragedy of an artist's life is that he cannot realise his ideal. But the true tragedy… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
The world has grown suspicious of anything that looks like a happily married life. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“You have never been poor, and never known what ambition is. Wealth has given me enormous power. It gave me at the… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“You know how I love secrecy. It is the only thing that can make modern life wonderful or mysterious to us. The… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live, it is asking others to live as one wishes to live. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Live! Live the wonderful life that is in you! Let nothing be lost upon you. Be always searching for new sensations. Be… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“There are few of us who have not sometimes wakened before dawn, either after one of those dreamless nights that make us… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
It often happens that the real tragedies of life occur in such an inartistic manner that they hurt us by their crude… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Life under a good government is rarely dramatic; life under a bad government is always so. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
To shut one's eyes to half of life that one may live securely is as though one blinded oneself that one might… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Life is never fair, and perhaps it is a good thing for most of us that it is not. — 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
