The final mystery is oneself... Who can calculate the orbit of his own soul. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“To cure the soul by means of the senses, and the senses by means of the soul." Yes, that was the secret.” — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“To cure the soul by means of the senses, and the senses by means of the soul.” — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Ordinary riches can be stolen; real riches cannot. In your soul are infinitely precious things that cannot be taken from you. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Nothing can cure the soul but the senses, just as nothing can cure the senses but the soul. — 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
Mere color, unspoiled by meaning, and unallied with definite form, can speak to the soul in a thousand different ways. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“had come face to face with some one whose mere personality was so fascinating that, if I allowed it to do so,… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“That is one of the secrets of life - to cure the soul by means of the senses, and the senses by… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
I knew that I had come face to face with some one whose mere personality was so fascinating that, if I allowed… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
To be really mediæval one should have no body. To be really modern one should have no soul. To be really Greek… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“I get hungry for her presence; and when I think of the wonderful soul that is hidden away in that little ivory… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“The harmony of soul and body - how much that is! We in our madness have separated the two, and have invented… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Every one of course represents the spirit of his age, but there is an eternal aspect of the Spirit of every age… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
What the artist is always looking for is the mode of existence in which soul and body are one and indivisible: in… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“I suddenly became conscious that some one was looking at me. I turned half-way round and saw Dorian Gray for the first… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“To spiritualize one's age—that is something worth doing. If this girl can give a soul to those who have lived without one,… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“Yet, as has been said of him before, no theory of life seemed to him to be of any importance compared with… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“If this girl can give a soul to those who have lived without one, if she can create the sense of beauty… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“Unconsciously he defines for me the lines of a fresh new school, a school that is to have in it all the… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
When our eyes met, I felt that I was growing pale. A curious sensation of terror came over me. I knew that… — 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
“I remember once, in talking to Mr. Burne-Jones about modern science, his saying to me, ‘the more materialistic science becomes, the more… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“There is no such thing as a good influence, Mr. Gray. All influence is immoral - immoral from the scientific point of… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“I believe that if one man were to live out his life fully and completely, were to give form to every feeling,… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“When I say that I am convinced of these things I speak with too much pride. Far off, like a perfect pearl,… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“And so, it is not our own life that we live, but the lives of the dead, and the soul that dwells… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“I remember talking once on this subject to one of the most beautiful personalities I have ever known: a woman, whose sympathy and noble kindness to me, both before and since the tragedy of my imprisonment, have been beyond power and description; one who has really assisted me, though she does not know it, to bear the burden of my… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share
“I understand what you mean, and I believe in this girl. Anyone you love must be marvellous, and any girl that has… — 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
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 but his prejudices his principles and his common sense. The only artists I have ever known who are personally delightful are bad artists. Good artists exist simply in what they make and consequently are perfectly uninteresting… — 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 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
