--- title: "18 Strange Quotes By Oscar Wilde" description: "18 Strange quotes by Oscar Wilde. Plus more from Oscar Wilde and more Strange sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/54f/oscar-wilde-16_death_strange-sense-of-loss-came-over-him-1468_1468452.jpg" --- > [“strange sense of loss came over him.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/oscar-wilde/strange-sense-of-loss-came-over-him/) [Oscar Wilde](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/oscar-wilde/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/54f/oscar-wilde-16_death_strange-sense-of-loss-came-over-him-1468_1468452.jpg) > [Intuition is a strange instinct that tells a woman she is right, whether she is or not.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/oscar-wilde/intuition-is-a-strange-instinct-that-tells-a-woman-she-is-right/) [Oscar Wilde](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/oscar-wilde/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/67c/oscar-wilde-16_instinct_intuition-is-a-strange-instinct-that-tel_1656304.jpg) > [“But strange that I was not told That the brain can hold In a tiny ivory cell God's heaven and hell.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/oscar-wilde/but-strange-that-i-was-not-told-that-the-brain-can-hold-in-a-tiny/) [Oscar Wilde](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/oscar-wilde/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/08e/oscar-wilde-16_heaven-and-hell_but-strange-that-i-was-not-told-that-the_934962.jpg) > [Like strange mechanical grotesques, Making fantastic arabesques, The shadows raced across the blind.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/oscar-wilde/like-strange-mechanical-grotesques-making-fantastic-arabesques-the/) [Oscar Wilde](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/oscar-wilde/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f79/oscar-wilde-16_blind_like-strange-mechanical-grotesques-makin_1060781.jpg) > [Women defend themselves by attacking, just as they attack by sudden and strange surrenders.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/oscar-wilde/women-defend-themselves-by-attacking-just-as-they-attack-by-sudden/) [Oscar Wilde](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/oscar-wilde/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/2f9/oscar-wilde-16_attacking_women-defend-themselves-by-attacking-jus_487710.jpg) > [He watched it with that strange interest in trivial things that we try to develop when things of high import make us…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/oscar-wilde/he-watched-it-with-that-strange-interest-in-trivial-things-that-we-3/) [Oscar Wilde](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/oscar-wilde/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/953/oscar-wilde-16_emotion_he-watched-it-with-that-strange-interest_2558596.jpg) > [How strange a thing this is! The Priest telleth me that the Soul is worth all the gold in the world, and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/oscar-wilde/how-strange-a-thing-this-is-the-priest-telleth-me-that-the-soul-is/) [Oscar Wilde](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/oscar-wilde/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/0d8/oscar-wilde-16_gold_how-strange-a-thing-this-is-the-priest-t_1683300.jpg) > [There were sins whose fascination was more in the memory than in the doing of them, strange triumphs that gratified the pride…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/oscar-wilde/there-were-sins-whose-fascination-was-more-in-the-memory-than-in-the-2/) [Oscar Wilde](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/oscar-wilde/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/543/oscar-wilde-16_fascination_there-were-sins-whose-fascination-was-mo_1452919.jpg) > [Man is a being with myriad lives and myriad sensations, a complex, multiform creature that bears within itself strange legacies of thought…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/oscar-wilde/man-is-a-being-with-myriad-lives-and-myriad-sensations-a-complex/) [Oscar Wilde](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/oscar-wilde/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c18/oscar-wilde-16_bears_man-is-a-being-with-myriad-lives-and-myr_1784082.jpg) > [“Look at the moon. How strange the moon seems! She is like a woman rising from a tomb. She is like a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/oscar-wilde/look-at-the-moon-how-strange-the-moon-seems-she-is-like-a-woman/) [Oscar Wilde](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/oscar-wilde/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/590/oscar-wilde-16_fancy_look-at-the-moon-how-strange-the-moon-se_1765120.jpg) > [The gods are strange. It is not our vices only they make instruments to scourge us. They bring us to ruin through…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/oscar-wilde/the-gods-are-strange-it-is-not-our-vices-only-they-make-instruments/) [Oscar Wilde](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/oscar-wilde/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/690/oscar-wilde-16_gentle_the-gods-are-strange-it-is-not-our-vices_794179.jpg) > [Yet, even for us, there is left some loveliness of environment, and the dullness of tutors and professors matters very little when…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/oscar-wilde/yet-even-for-us-there-is-left-some-loveliness-of-environment-and-the/) [Oscar Wilde](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/oscar-wilde/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/1a6/oscar-wilde-16_building_yet-even-for-us-there-is-left-some-lovel_898062.jpg) > [The world has become sad because a puppet was once melancholy. The nihilist, that strange martyr who has no faith, who goes…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/oscar-wilde/the-world-has-become-sad-because-a-puppet-was-once-melancholy-the/) [Oscar Wilde](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/oscar-wilde/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e07/oscar-wilde-16_anticipate_the-world-has-become-sad-because-a-puppe_2292603.jpg) > [There was something terribly enthralling in the exercise of influence. No other activity was like it. To project one's soul into some…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/oscar-wilde/there-was-something-terribly-enthralling-in-the-exercise-of-influence/) [Oscar Wilde](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/oscar-wilde/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c33/oscar-wilde-16_age_there-was-something-terribly-enthralling_3172067.jpg) > [The honest ratepayer and his healthy family have no doubt often mocked at the dome-like forehead of the philosopher, and laughed over…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/oscar-wilde/the-honest-ratepayer-and-his-healthy-family-have-no-doubt-often/) [Oscar Wilde](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/oscar-wilde/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/3ac/oscar-wilde-16_creeds_the-honest-ratepayer-and-his-healthy-fam_464686.jpg) > [The great things in life are what they seem to be. And for that reason, strange as it may sound to you,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/oscar-wilde/the-great-things-in-life-are-what-they-seem-to-be-and-for-that-reason/) [Oscar Wilde](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/oscar-wilde/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/3f0/oscar-wilde-16_difficult_the-great-things-in-life-are-what-they-s_576554.jpg) > [An entirely new factor has appeared in the social development of the country, and this factor is the Irish-American, and his influence.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/oscar-wilde/an-entirely-new-factor-has-appeared-in-the-social-development-of-the/) [Oscar Wilde](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/oscar-wilde/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e46/oscar-wilde-16_action_an-entirely-new-factor-has-appeared-in-t_2238031.jpg) > [There were times when it appeared to Dorian Gray that the whole of history was merely the record of his own life,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/oscar-wilde/there-were-times-when-it-appeared-to-dorian-gray-that-the-whole-of/) [Oscar Wilde](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/oscar-wilde/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a92/oscar-wilde-16_brain_there-were-times-when-it-appeared-to-dor_2016068.jpg) ## Other authors on Strange ## More by Oscar Wilde > [How else but through a broken heart may Lord Christ enter in?](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/oscar-wilde/how-else-but-through-a-broken-heart-may-lord-christ-enter-in/) [Oscar Wilde](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/oscar-wilde/) > [The books that the world calls immoral are the books that show the world its own shame.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/oscar-wilde/the-books-that-the-world-calls-immoral-are-the-books-that-show-the/) [Oscar Wilde](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/oscar-wilde/) > [Bachelors should be heavily taxed. It is not fair that some men should be happier than others](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/oscar-wilde/bachelors-should-be-heavily-taxed-it-is-not-fair-that-some-men-should/) [Oscar Wilde](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/oscar-wilde/) > [Who, being loved, is poor?](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/oscar-wilde/who-being-loved-is-poor/) [Oscar Wilde](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/oscar-wilde/) > [“Basil my dear boy puts everything that is charming in him into his work. The consequence is that he has nothing left for life…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/oscar-wilde/basil-my-dear-boy-puts-everything-that-is-charming-in-him-into-his/) [Oscar Wilde](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/oscar-wilde/) > [Anybody can be good in the country](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/oscar-wilde/anybody-can-be-good-in-the-country/) [Oscar Wilde](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/oscar-wilde/) > [I don't at all like knowing what people say of me behind my back. It makes me far too conceited.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/oscar-wilde/i-don-t-at-all-like-knowing-what-people-say-of-me-behind-my-back-it/) [Oscar Wilde](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/oscar-wilde/) > [“Alles Populäre ist falsch.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/oscar-wilde/alles-popul-re-ist-falsch/) [Oscar Wilde](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/oscar-wilde/) > [“If these elements of beauty are real, the whole thing simply appeals to our sense of dramatic effect. Suddenly we find that we are…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/oscar-wilde/if-these-elements-of-beauty-are-real-the-whole-thing-simply-appeals/) [Oscar Wilde](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/oscar-wilde/) > [To love one's self is the beginning of a life-long romance](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/oscar-wilde/to-love-one-s-self-is-the-beginning-of-a-life-long-romance/) [Oscar Wilde](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/oscar-wilde/) > [“Those who find beautiful meanings in beautiful things are the cultivated. For these there is hope.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/oscar-wilde/those-who-find-beautiful-meanings-in-beautiful-things-are-the/) [Oscar Wilde](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/oscar-wilde/) > [Men always want to be a womans first love. Women have a more subtle instinct: What they like is to be a mans last…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/oscar-wilde/men-always-want-to-be-a-womans-first-love-women-have-a-more-subtle/) [Oscar Wilde](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/oscar-wilde/) > [Why is it that at a bachelor's establishment the servants invariably drink the champagne.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/oscar-wilde/why-is-it-that-at-a-bachelor-s-establishment-the-servants-invariably/) [Oscar Wilde](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/oscar-wilde/) > [Moderation is a fatal thing. Enough is as bad as a meal. More than enough is as good as a feast.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/oscar-wilde/moderation-is-a-fatal-thing-enough-is-as-bad-as-a-meal-more-than/) [Oscar Wilde](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/oscar-wilde/) > [Beauty is the only thing that time cannot harm. Philosophies fall away like sand, creeds follow one another, but what is beautiful is a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/oscar-wilde/beauty-is-the-only-thing-that-time-cannot-harm-philosophies-fall-away/) [Oscar Wilde](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/oscar-wilde/) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/strange/oscar-wilde/#itemlist", "name": "18 Strange Quotes By Oscar Wilde", "numberOfItems": 18, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "“strange sense of loss came over him.”", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Oscar Wilde" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/oscar-wilde/strange-sense-of-loss-came-over-him/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/54f/oscar-wilde-16_death_strange-sense-of-loss-came-over-him-1468_1468452.jpg", "contentUrl": 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