The more one analyses people, the more all reasons for analysis disappear. Sooner or later one comes to that dreadful universal thing… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
One should always be in love. That is the reason one should never marry. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Technique is really personality. That is the reason why the artist cannot teach it, why the pupil cannot learn it, and why… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
The great things in life are what they seem to be. And for that reason, strange as it may sound to you,… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Man is a rational animal who always loses his temper when he is called upon to act in accordance with the dictates… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Only the unimaginative can fail to find a reason for drinking Champagne — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“I can stand brute force, but brute reason is quite unbearable. There is something unfair about it's use. It is hitting below… — 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
“One is tempted to define man as a rational animal who always loses his temper when he is called upon to act… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Agitators are a set of interfering, meddling people, who come down to some perfectly contented class of the community and sow the… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
I asked the question for the best reason possible, for the only reason, indeed, that excuses anyone for asking any question -… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
The reason we are so pleased to find other people's secrets is that it distracts public attention from our own. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
It is only about things that do not interest one that one can give a really unbiased opinion, which is no doubt… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Technique is really personality. That is the reason why the artist cannot teach it, why the pupil cannot learn it, and why… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Truth in art is the unity of a thing with itself: the outward rendered expressive of the inward: the soul made incarnate:… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“There are works which wait, and which one does not understand for a long time; the reason is that they bring answers… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Why can't these American women stay in their own country? They are always telling us that it is the paradise for women.… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Behind joy and laughter there may be a temperament, coarse, hard and callous. But behind sorrow there is always sorrow. Pain, unlike… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
The proper basis for marriage is mutual misunderstanding. The happiness of a married man depends on the people he has not married.… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
The reason we all like to think so well of others is that we are all afraid for ourselves. The basis 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 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
