Yes, very sensible... People die of common sense, Dorian, one lost moment at a time. Life is a moment. There is no… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
He made me see what Life is, and what Death signifies, and why Love is stronger than both. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
The General was essentially a man of peace, except in his domestic life. — 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 think that in practical life there is something about success, actual success, that is a little unscrupulous, something about ambition that… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
All art is at once surface and symbol. Those who go beneath the surface do so at their peril. Those who read… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
As a wicked man I am a complete failure. Why, there are lots of people who say I have never really done… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Would you like to know the great drama of my life? It is that I have put my genius into my life...I… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Gwendolen, it is a terrible thing for a man to find out suddenly that all his life he has been speaking nothing… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
The only one you need in your life is that person who shows you he needs you in his. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“I talk so trivially about life because I think that life is far too important a thing ever to talk seriously about… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“The worship of the senses has often, and with much justice, been decried, men feeling a natural instinct of terror about passions… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“I never approve, or disapprove, of anything now. It is an absurd attitude to take towards life. We are not sent into… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Any place you love is the world to you”, explained the pensive Catherine Wheel, who had been attached to an old deal… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
What the artist is always looking for is the mode of existence in which soul and body are one and indivisible: in… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“Life is never fair, Robert. And perhaps it is a good thing for most of us that it is not.” — 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
“You should treat the trivial things in life seriously and the serious things in life with a sincere and studied triviality” — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Everything is dangerous, my dear fellow. If it wasn't so, life wouldn't be worth living. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“And so, it is not our own life that we live, but the lives of the dead, and the soul that dwells… — 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
