I think you will tire first, all the same. Some day you will look at him and he will seem to you to be a little out of drawing, or you won’t like his tone of color, or something. You will bitterly reproach him in your own heart, and seriously think he has behaved very badly to you. The next time he calls you will be perfectly cold and indifferent. It will be a great pity, for it will alter you. The worst of having a romance is that it leaves one so unromantic.

— Oscar Wilde

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To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.

— Oscar Wilde

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Daughter of Sodom, come not near me! But cover thy face with a veil, and scatter ashes upon thine head, and get thee to the desert and seek out the Son of Man.

— Oscar Wilde

Art begins with abstract decoration with purely imaginative and pleasurable work dealing with what is unreal and non existent.

— Oscar Wilde

The Mystical in Art, the Mystical in Life, the Mystical in Nature this is what I am looking for. It is absolutely necessary for me to find it somewhere.

— Oscar Wilde

I wish I could love,” cried Dorian Gray with a deep note of pathos in his voice. “But I seem to have lost the passion and forgotten the desire. I am too much concentrated on myself. My own personality has become a burden to me.

— Oscar Wilde

Don’t talk about horrid subjects. If one doesn’t talk about a thing, it has never happened.

— Oscar Wilde

The highest as the lowest form of criticism is a mode of autobiography. Those who find ugly meanings in beautiful things are corrupt without being charming. This is a fault. Those who find beautiful meanings in beautiful things are the cultivated. For these there is hope. They are the elect to whom beautiful things mean only beauty.

— Oscar Wilde

To live in happiness, you must know some unhappiness in life.

— Oscar Wilde

Le donne ci ispirano il desiderio di far dei capolavori e ci impediscono sempre di eseguirli.

— Oscar Wilde

No one survives being over-estimated, nor is there any surer way of destroying an author’s reputation than to glorify him without judgement and to praise him without tact.

— Oscar Wilde

The reason we all like to think so well of others is that we are all afraid for ourselves. The basis of optimism is sheer terror. We think that we are generous because we credit our neighbour with the possession of those virtues that are likely to be a benefit to us. We praise the banker that we may overdraw our account, and find good qualities in the highwayman in the hope that he may spare our pockets.

— Oscar Wilde

Her hair clustered around her face like dark leaves round a pale rose.

— Oscar Wilde

I think you will tire first, all the same. Some day you will look at him and he will seem to you to be a little out of drawing, or you won’t like his tone of color, or something. You will bitterly reproach him in your own heart, and seriously think he has behaved very badly to you. The next time he calls you will be perfectly cold and indifferent. It will be a great pity, for it will alter you. The worst of having a romance is that it leaves one so unromantic.

— Oscar Wilde

I have grown to love secrecy.

— Oscar Wilde

He is the Philistine who upholds and aids the heavy, cumbrous, blind mechanical forces of Society, and who does not recognise the dynamic force when he meets it either in a man or a movement.

— Oscar Wilde

I only knew that I had seen perfection face to face, and that the world had become wonderful to my eyes – to wonderful, perhaps, for in such mad worships there is peril, the peril of losing them, no less than the peril of keeping them...

— Oscar Wilde

If you wish me to never look at your picture again, I am content. I have always you to look at. If you wish the best work I have ever done to be hidden from the world, I am satisfied. Your friendship is dearer to me than any fame or reputation.

— Oscar Wilde

People never think of cultivating a young girl’s imagination. It is the great defect of modern education.

— Oscar Wilde

Es una triste verdad, pero hemos perdido la capacidad de dar nombres bonitos a las cosas. Los nombres lo son todo.

— Oscar Wilde

The only people to whose opinions I listen now with any respect are people much younger than myself. They seem in front of me. Life has revealed to them her latest wonder. As for the aged, I always contradict the aged. I do it on principle. If you ask them their opinion on something that happened yesterday, they solemnly give you the opinions current in 1820, when people wore high stocks, believed in everything, and knew absolutely nothing.

— Oscar Wilde

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