Quote by Oscar Wilde Download Open image ““iridescent with fancy and winged it with paradox.”” — Oscar Wilde ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.4 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare
“She knew intellectually that he was beautiful, the way the iridescent wings of a carrion fly would be.” — James S.A. Corey Copy Share Image
“And this evening when I close my eyes against the darkness and think about her, I'll imagine iridescent wings fluttering, if only for a… — Nancy Stephan Copy Share Image
“That's how it is for me, thinking about the future. Two different shapes. One holding time; the other escaping it. One suggesting fragility, confinement;… — Amy Boesky Copy Share Image
“The mind is beautiful because of the paradox. It uses itself to understand itself.” — Adam Elenbaas Copy Share Image
“this was a moment of magic revealing to us all, for a few moments, a hidden world of grace and wonder beyond the one… — Elspeth Huxley Copy Share Image
“A great poet gives words wings to fly in the reader's perceptual sky.” — Debasish Mridha Copy Share Image
“Paradox is beloved of novelists. The despised savior, the humane whore, the selfish man suddenly munificent, the wise fool, and the cowardly hero. Most… — Thomas Keneally Copy Share Image
“Alongside the practical thought something else struggled and, like an escaped butterfly, took wing: the assurance of something wonderful awaiting her. Just around the… — Norah Lofts Copy Share Image
“With its proud wings of the eagle, lighter than air; In harmony with the universe, and always be full-fledged.” — sir kristian goldmund aumann Copy Share Image
“If only I had feathered wings, that could bend and curve and reach, beyond imagined dreams, unhindered by the weight of earth.” — Craig Froman 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
