There are few of us who have not sometimes wakened before dawn, either after one of those dreamless nights that make one… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
If one were to live his life fully and completely were to give form to every feeling, expression to every thought, reality… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“It is simply expression, as Henry says, that gives reality to things.” — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Ideals are dangerous things. Realities are better. They wound, but they're better. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
I treated Art as the supreme reality and life as a mere mode of fiction. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“Out of the unreal shadows of the night comes back the real life that we had known” — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
For, try as we may, we cannot get behind the appearence of things to reality. And the terrible reason may be that… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Indeed, as any one who has ever worked among the poor knows only too well, the brotherhood of man is no mere… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“Well, the way of paradoxes is the way of truth. To test reality we must see it on the tight rope. When… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
The supreme object of life is to live. Few people live. It is true life only to realize one's own perfection, to… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
The way of paradoxes is the way of truth. To test Reality we must see it on the tight-rope. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
The brotherhood of man is not a mere poet’s dream: it is a most depressing and humiliating reality. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
The soul is a terrible reality. It can be bought and sold and bartered away. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
If one doesn't talk about a thing, it has never happened. It is simply expression that gives reality to things. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
The best one can say of modern creative art is that it is just a little less vulgar than reality. — 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
