At twilight, nature is not without loveliness, though perhaps its chief use is to illustrate quotations from the poets. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Art, like Nature, has her monsters, things of bestial shape and with hideous voices. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
He must have a truly romantic nature, for he weepswhen there is nothing at all toweep about. — 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
I am afraid he has one of those terribly weak natures that are susceptible to influence. — 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
“She is at rest. Peace, peace, she cannot hear, Lyre or sonnet, All my life's buried here, Heap earth upon it.” — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Death must be so beautiful. To lie in the soft brown earth, with the grasses waving above one's head, and listen to… — 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 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
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
“His nature had developed like a flower, had borne blossoms of scarlet flame. Out of its secret hiding-place had crept his Soul,… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“I did not want any external influence in my life. You know how independent I am by nature. I have always been… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Death must be so beautiful. To lie in the soft brown earth, with the grasses waving above one's head, and listen to… — 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
“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
“For Wilde, the most perfect individual is anarchic and antisocial, obeying laws only of his own making. As in "The Critic as… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
I do not approve of anything that tampers with natural ignorance. Ignorance is like a delicate exotic fruit; touch it and the… — 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
“The aim of life is self-development. To realise one's nature perfectly-that is what each of us is here for. People are afraid… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“But it appeared to Dorian Gray that the true nature of the senses had never been understood, and that they had remained… — 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
“I do not approve of anything that tampers with natural ignorance. Ignorance is like a delicate exotic fruit; touch it and the… — 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
“Peace, Peace, she cannot hear Lyre or sonnet, All my life's buried here, Heap earth upon it.” — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“Rugged and straightforward as he was, there was something in his nature that was purely feminine in its tenderness” — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Nature is a wet place where large numbers of ducks fly overhead uncooked. — 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 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
“As he thought of it, a sharp pang of pain struck through him like a knife and made each delicate fibre of… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
No better way is there to learn to love Nature than to understand Art. It dignifies every flower of the field. And,… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Nature…she will hang the night stars so that I may walk abroad in the darkness without stumbling, and send word the wind… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
There are moments, psychologists tell us, when the passion for sin, or what the world calls sin, so dominates a nature, that… — 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
Why is it that at a bachelor's establishment the servants invariably drink the champagne. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Moderation is a fatal thing. Enough is as bad as a meal. More than enough is as good as a feast. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Beauty is the only thing that time cannot harm. Philosophies fall away like sand, creeds follow one another, but what is beautiful is a… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
