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
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
“I want the dead lovers of the world to hear our laughter, and grow sad. I want a breath of our passion… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
The great events of life often leave one unmoved; they pass out of consciousness, and, when thinks of them, become unreal. Even… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Always! That is a dreadful word. It makes me shudder when I hear it. Women are so fond of using it. They… — 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
“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
The only difference between a caprice and a lifelong passion is that the caprice lasts a little longer. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
A beautiful woman risking everything for a mad passion. A few wild weeks of happiness cut short by a hideous, treacherous crime.… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“the people who love only once in their lives are really the shallow people. What they call their loyalty, and their fidelity,… — 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
Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love, but no friendship. — 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
I want the dead lovers of the world to hear our laughter and grow sad. I want a breath of our passion… — 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
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
“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
It was the passions about whose origin we deceived ourselves that tyrannized most strongly over us. — 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 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
