“had come face to face with some one whose mere personality was so fascinating that, if I allowed it to do so,… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
I knew that I had come face to face with some one whose mere personality was so fascinating that, if I allowed… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“The aim of life is self-development. To realize one's nature perfectly—that is what each of us is here for. People are afraid… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Nature, which makes nothing durable, always repeats itself so that nothing which it makes may be lost. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“My sermon on the meaning of the manna in the wilderness can be adapted to almost any occasion, joyful, or, as in… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Anybody can sympathise with all the sufferings of the pal, nevertheless it involves an extremely great mother nature to sympathise by using… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
The more one analyses people, the more all reasons for analysis disappear. Sooner or later one comes to that dreadful universal thing… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
It is only the superficial qualities that last. Man's deeper nature is soon found out. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“Peace, Peace, she cannot hear Lyre or sonnet, All my life's buried here, Heap earth upon it.” — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
That beauty which is meant by art is no mere accident of human life which people can take or leave, but a… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Really, if the lower orders don't set a good example, what on earth is the use of them? — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
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
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
At twilight, nature is not without loveliness, though perhaps its chief use is to illustrate quotations from the poets. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“There is no such thing as a good influence, Mr. Gray. All influence is immoral - immoral from the scientific point of… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“to make public atonement. There was a God who called upon men to tell their sins to earth as well as to… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“the Garden of Death" "Yes, death. Death must be so beautiful. To lie in the soft brown earth, with the grasses waving… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
The only thing that one really knows about human nature is that it changes. Change is the one quality we can predicate… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“But above all things was it a return to Nature - that formula which seems to suit so many and such diverse… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“For the various spiritual forms of the imagination have a natural affinity with certain sensuous forms of art - and to discern… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“But there is no such thing, sir, as a ghost, and I guess the laws of Nature are not going to be… — 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
