Like strange mechanical grotesques, Making fantastic arabesques, The shadows raced across the blind. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Women defend themselves by attacking, just as they attack by sudden and strange surrenders. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“But strange that I was not told That the brain can hold In a tiny ivory cell God's heaven and hell.” — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Intuition is a strange instinct that tells a woman she is right, whether she is or not. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“Look at the moon. How strange the moon seems! She is like a woman rising from a tomb. She is like a… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
The gods are strange. It is not our vices only they make instruments to scourge us. They bring us to ruin through… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Man is a being with myriad lives and myriad sensations, a complex, multiform creature that bears within itself strange legacies of thought… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
There were sins whose fascination was more in the memory than in the doing of them, strange triumphs that gratified the pride… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
How strange a thing this is! The Priest telleth me that the Soul is worth all the gold in the world, and… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
There were times when it appeared to Dorian Gray that the whole of history was merely the record of his own life,… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
An entirely new factor has appeared in the social development of the country, and this factor is the Irish-American, and his influence.… — 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
The honest ratepayer and his healthy family have no doubt often mocked at the dome-like forehead of the philosopher, and laughed over… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Yet, even for us, there is left some loveliness of environment, and the dullness of tutors and professors matters very little when… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
He watched it with that strange interest in trivial things that we try to develop when things of high import make us… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
The world has become sad because a puppet was once melancholy. The nihilist, that strange martyr who has no faith, who goes… — 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
