The aim of life is self-development. To realize one's nature perfectly -- that is what each of us is here for. People… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Out of the unreal shadows of night comes back the real life that we had known. We have to resume it where… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“I never intend to grow old. The soul is born old but grows young. That is the comedy of life.” — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
From the point of view of literature Mr. Kipling is a genius who drops his aspirates. From the point of view of… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
To stake all one's life on a single moment, to risk everything on one throw, whether the stake be power or pleasure,… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
I have grown tired of the articulate utterances of men and things. The Mystical in Art, the Mystical in Life, the Mystical… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
'The Lady's World' should be made the recognized organ for the expression of women's opinions on all subjects of literature, art and… — 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
“Of course, married life is merely a habit, a bad habit. But then one regrets the loss even of one's worst habits.… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
The great things in life are what they seem to be. And for that reason, strange as it may sound to you,… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“It is only when one has lost all things, that one knows that one possesses it” — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Good taste is the excuse I've always given for leading such a bad life — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Ethics, like natural selection, make existence possible. Aesthetics, like sensual selection, make life lovely and wonderful, fill it with new forms, and… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
I see that any materialism in life coarsens the soul, and that the hunger of the body and the appetites of the… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
There is something terribly morbid in the modern sympathy with pain. One should sympathise with the colour, the beauty, the joy of… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“We can have in life but one great experience at best, and the secret of life is to reproduce that experience as… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“I remembered what you had said to me on that wonderful evening we first dined together, about the search for beauty being… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“One of the great secrets of life. Most people die of a sort of creeping common sense and discover too late that… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“tone of colour in a room or a morning sky, a particular perfume that you had once loved and that brings subtle… — 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
