Oscar WildeWhile we look to the dramatist to give romance to realism, we ask of the actor to give realism to romance. ✨ Oscar Wilde (2014). A Critic in Pall Mall: Being Extracts from R… ▶371Love
Oscar WildeI can stand brute force, but brute reason is quite unbearable. There is something unfair about its use. It is hitting below the intellect. ✨ Oscar Wilde (2007). The Collecte… ▶371Politics
Oscar WildeThe only way to get rid of temptation is to yield to it... I can resist everything but temptation. ✨ The Picture of Dorian Gray ch. 2 (1891) See Balzac 1; Clementina Graham … ▶371Death
Oscar WildeA map of the world that does not include Utopia is not worth even glancing at, for it leaves out the one country at which Humanity is always landing. And when Humanity lands there… ▶371Humanity
Oscar WildeAmerica is the noisiest country that ever existed. One is waked up in the morning, not by the singing of the nightingale, but by the steam whistle. ✨ Oscar Wilde (1969). The… ▶371Love
Oscar WildeThe evolution of man is slow. The injustice of men is great. ✨ Oscar Wilde (2007). The Collected Works of Oscar Wilde, p.1065, Wordsworth Editions372Humor
Oscar WildeOnes real life is often the life that one does not lead. ✨ Oscar Wilde (2012). The Wit and Humor of Oscar Wilde, p.64, Courier Corporation361HumorLife
Oscar WildeIt is what you read when you don't have to that determines what you will be when you can't help it.361Reading
Oscar WildeTo love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance. ✨ Phrases and Philosophies for the Use of the Young (1894)372LifeLove
Oscar WildeUltimately the bond of all companionship, whether in marriage or in friendship, is conversation. ✨ Oscar Wilde (1999). De Profundis: The Ballad of Reading Gaol and Other Wri… ▶361Reading
Oscar WildeFor the canons of good society are, or should be, the same as the canons of art. Form is absolutely essential to it. ✨ Oscar Wilde (2015). The Picture of Dorian Gray (Divers… ▶372HumanityReading
Oscar WildeShe behaves as if she was beautiful. Most American women do. It is the secret of their charm. ✨ Oscar Wilde (1997). Collected Works of Oscar Wilde: The Plays, the Poems, the… ▶372Reading
Oscar WildeI have spent most of the day putting in a comma and the rest of the day taking it out.361Reading
Oscar WildeTo regret one’s own experiences is to arrest one’s own development. To deny one’s own experiences is to put a lie into the lips of one’s own life. It is no less than a denial of t… ▶372Life
Oscar WildeThe best one can say of modern creative art is that it is just a little less vulgar than reality.372Truth
Oscar WildeIt was only in the theatre that I lived ✨ Oscar Wilde, General Press (2016). The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: Novel, Short Stories, Poetry, Essays and Plays, p.71, GENERAL… ▶351Reading
Oscar WildeThe ugly can be beautiful. The pretty, never.373Love
Oscar WildePublic Opinion... an attempt to organize the ignorance of the community, and to elevate it to the dignity of physical force. ✨ Oscar Wilde (2012). The Wit and Humor of Oscar… ▶373Humor
Oscar WildeWe are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars. We all have clouds above us but some see their silver linings. We all face difficulties but some of us are grate… ▶373Sadness
Oscar WildeWhere there is no love there is no understanding. ✨ Oscar Wilde (2016). Reviews, p.596, Oscar Wilde351Love
Oscar WildeThe bureaucracy is expanding to meet the needs of the expanding bureaucracy.373Hope
Oscar WildeThe only thing that one really knows about human nature is that it changes. Change is the one quality we can predicate of it. The systems that fail are those that rely on the perm… ▶351HumanityThought
Oscar WildeAt every single moment of one's life one is what one is going to be no less than what one has been. ✨ Oscar Wilde, Russell Jackson, Ian Small (2000). The Complete Works of O… ▶373LifeTime
Oscar WildeI love acting. It is so much more real than life. ✨ Oscar Wilde, Russell Jackson, Joseph Bristow, Ian Small (2000). The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: The picture of Dorian … ▶362LifeLove
Oscar WildeOne must have some sort of occupation nowadays. If I hadn't my debts I shouldn't have anything to think about.362Thought
Oscar WildeThe only way a woman can ever reform a man is by boring him so completely that he loses all possible interest in life. ✨ Oscar Wilde (2015). The Picture of Dorian Gray, p.11… ▶351Life
Oscar WildeI must decline your invitation owing to a subsequent engagement.362Sadness
Oscar WildeI never approve, or disapprove, of anything now. It is an absurd attitude to take towards life. ✨ Oscar Wilde, Russell Jackson, Joseph Bristow, Ian Small (2000). The Complet… ▶362Life
Oscar WildeI have always been of the opinion that hard work is simply the refuge of people who have nothing whatever to do. ✨ Complete Fairy Tales of Oscar Wilde.373Humanity
Oscar WildeYou are Beautiful when you are happy362Reading
