Paradoxically though it may seem, it is none the less true that life imitates art far more than art imitates life. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
The only difference between a caprice and a lifelong passion is that the caprice lasts a little longer. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
It was the passions about whose origin we deceived ourselves that tyrannized most strongly over us. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“He loves first editions, especially of women: little girls are his passion.” — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
She had a passion for secrecy, but she herself was merely a Sphinx without a secret. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Poets know how useful passion is for publication. Nowadays a broken heart will run to many editions. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Great passions are for the great of soul, and great events can be seen only by those who are on a level… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“Let those who have not walked as we have done, In the red fire of passion, those whose lives Are dull and… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“Faithfulness! I must analyze it some day. The passion for property is in it. There are many things that we would throw… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Shakespeare might have met Rosencrantz and Guildenstern in the white streets of London, or seen the serving-men of rival houses bite their… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“each time that one loves is the only time one has ever loved. difference of object does not alter singleness of passion.… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“What the paradox was to me in the sphere of thought, perversity became to me in the sphere of passion. Desire, at… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Medievalism, with its saints and martyrs, its love of self-torture, its wild passion for wounding itself, its gashing with knives, and its… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“Each time that one loves is the only time one has ever loved. Difference of object does not alter singleness of passion.… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
To be good, according to the vulgar standard of goodness, is obviously quite easy. It merely requires a certain amount of sordid… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Love does not traffic in a marketplace, nor use a huckster's scales. Its joy, like the joy of the intellect, is to… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“I call it our English Renaissance because it is indeed a sort of new birth of the spirit of man, like the… — 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
“Life is not governed by will or intention. Life is a question of nerves, and fibres, and slowly built-up cells in which… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Poets are not so scrupulous as you are. They know how useful passion is for publication. Nowadays a broken heart will run… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
But we never get back our youth… The pulse of joy that beats in us at twenty becomes sluggish. Our limbs fail,… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
It is in the brain, and the brain only, that the great sins of the world take place also. You, Mr. Gray,… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“I can not help feeling that it is a mistake to think that the passion one feels in creation is ever really… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“And so he had begun by vivisecting himself, as he had ended by vivisecting others. Human life—that appeared to him the one… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
There was something terribly enthralling in the exercise of influence. No other activity was like it. To project one's soul into some… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“The heart contains passion but the imagination alone contains poetry,’ says Charles Baudelaire. This too was the lesson that Theophile Gautier, most… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
My dear boy, the people who love only once in their lives are really the shallow people. What they call their loyalty,… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Perhaps there may come into my art also, no less than into my life, a still deeper note, one of greater unity… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love, but no friendship. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Behind the perfection of a man's style, must lie the passion of a man's soul. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“Ones own soul, and the passions of one’s friends—those were the fascinating things in life.” — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“She was usually in love with somebody, and, as her passion was never returned, she had kept all her illusions.” — 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
