“Every impulse that we strive to strangle broods in the mind and poisons us.” — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“And mind you don't talk about anything serious. Nothing is serious nowadays. At least nothing should be.” — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Society exists only as a mental concept; in the real world there are only individuals. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Women represent the triumph of matter over mind, just as men represent the triumph of mind over morals. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
The mind of the thoroughly well-informed man is a dreadful thing. It is like a bric-à-brac shop, all monsters and dust, with… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
The great poet is always a seer, seeing less with the eyes of the body than he does with the eyes of… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“For the recognition of private property has really harmed Individualism, and obscured it, by confusing a man with what he possesses.” — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Ah! The strength of women comes from the fact that psychology cannot explain us. Men can be analyzed, women...merely adored. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Psychology is in its infancy, as a science. I hope in the interests of Art, it will always remain so. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
I made art a philosophy, and philosophy an art: I altered the minds of men, and the colour of things: I awoke… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“My dear boy, no woman is a genius. Women are a decorative sex. They never have anything to say, but they say… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“The thoroughly well-informed man — that is the modern ideal. And the mind of the thoroughly well-informed man is a dreadful thing.… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“there is no doubt that genius lasts longer than beauty. That accounts for the fact that we all take such pains to… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
[T]he recognition of private property has really harmed Individualism, and obscured it, by confusing a man with what he possesses. It has… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“Every single human being should be the fulfilment of a prophecy: for every human being should be the realisation of some ideal,… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
We quaff the cup of life with eager haste without draining it, instead of which it only overflows the brim - objects… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
I would not a bit mind sleeping in the cool grass in summer, and when winter came on sheltering myself by the… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“For the recognition of private property has really harmed Individualism, and obscured it, by confusing a man with what he possesses. It… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“In the wild struggle for existence, we want to have something that endures, and so we fill our minds with rubbish and… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“We are punished for our refusals. Every impulse that we strive to strangle broods in the mind and poisons us. The body… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“Well, I must say, Algernon, that I think it is high time that Mr. Bunbury made up his mind whether he was… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“He used to wonder at the shallow psychology of those who conceive the ego in man as a thing simple, permanent, reliable… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“For the good we get from art is not what we learn from it; it is what we become through it. Its… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“To the Greeks this problem of the conditions of poetic production, and the places occupied by either spontaneity or self-consciousness in any… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
I feel that if I kept it secret it might grow in my mind (as poisonous things grow in the dark) and… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Hesitation of any kind is a sign of mental decay in the young, of physical weakness in the old. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
The English mind is always in a rage. The intellect of the race is wasted in the sordid and stupid quarrels of… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
I am very glad I have travelled. Travel improves the mind wonderfully, and does away with all one's prejudices. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
In the wild struggle for existence, we want to have something that endures, and so we fill our minds with rubbish and… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“Silently we went round and round, And through each hollow mind The memory of dreadful things Rushed like a dreadful wind, And… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Yes, there is a terrible moral in 'Dorian Gray' - a moral which the prurient will not be able to find in… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“My dear boy, no woman is a genius. Women are a decorative sex. They never have anything to say, but they say… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“Nothing is more evident than that Nature hates mind. Thinking is the most unhealthy thing in the world, and people die of… — 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
Bachelors should be heavily taxed. It is not fair that some men should be happier than others — Oscar Wilde Copy Share
“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
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
“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
“Those who find beautiful meanings in beautiful things are the cultivated. For these there is hope.” — Oscar Wilde Copy Share
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
Why is it that at a bachelor's establishment the servants invariably drink the champagne. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share
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
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
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