She had a passion for secrecy, but she herself was merely a Sphinx without a secret. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“They spoil every romance by trying to make it last for ever. It is a meaningless word, too. The only difference between… — Oscar wilde Copy Share Image
It is quite true that I have worshipped you with far more romance of feeling than a man usually gives to a… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
There were sins whose fascination was more in the memory than in the doing of them, strange triumphs that gratified the pride… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
I have pleasures, and passions, but the joy of life is gone. I am going under: the morgue yawns for me. I… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
There is no such thing as a good influence. Because to influence a person is to give him one's own soul. He… — 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
There was no doubt that curiosity had much to do with it, curiosity and the desire for new experiences; yet it was… — 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
Man is a being with myriad lives and myriad sensations, a complex, multiform creature that bears within itself strange legacies of thought… — 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
Even now I cannot help feeling that it is a mistake to think that the passion one feels in creation is ever… — 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
“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
“She was usually in love with somebody, and, as her passion was never returned, she kept all her illusions. She tried to… — 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
There were times when it appeared to Dorian Gray that the whole of history was merely the record of his own life,… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
It's tragic how few people ever 'possess their souls' before they die. 'Nothing is more rare in any man', says Emerson, 'than… — 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
