“The secret of remaining young is never to have an emotion that is unbecoming.”
Oscar Wilde book The Picture of Dorian Gray
Source: The Picture of Dorian Gray
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@xy, member from Sept. 25, 2023Oscar Wilde The Importance of Being Earnest
Algernon, Act I
Source: The Importance of Being Earnest (1895)
“All art is at once surface and symbol. Those who go beneath the surface do so at their peril.”
Oscar Wilde book The Picture of Dorian Gray
Source: The Picture of Dorian Gray
“When we are happy, we are always good, but when we are good, we are not always happy.”
Oscar Wilde book The Picture of Dorian Gray
Source: The Picture of Dorian Gray
“Knowledge would be fatal. It is the uncertainty that charms one. A mist makes things wonderful.”
Oscar Wilde book The Picture of Dorian Gray
Source: The Picture of Dorian Gray
“You know more than you think you know, just as you know less than you want to know.”
Oscar Wilde book The Picture of Dorian Gray
Variant: You are a wonderful creation. You know more than you think you know, just as you know less than you want to know.
Source: The Picture of Dorian Gray
“Where there is sorrow there is holy ground.”
Oscar Wilde book De Profundis
De Profundis (1897)
Variant: Where there is no love there is no understanding.
“I am sick of women who love one. Women who hate one are much more interesting.”
Oscar Wilde (1854–1900) Irish writer and poet
“Art is the most intense mode of individualism that the world has known.”
Oscar Wilde book The Soul of Man under Socialism
Source: The Soul of Man Under Socialism
Oscar Wilde (1854–1900) Irish writer and poet
Source: Lady Windermere's Fan / A Woman of No Importance / An Ideal Husband / The Importance of Being Earnest / Salomé
“Women defend themselves by attacking, just as they attack by sudden and strange surrenders.”
Oscar Wilde book The Picture of Dorian Gray
Source: The Picture of Dorian Gray
“The true mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible.”
Oscar Wilde (1854–1900) Irish writer and poet
“One's real life is so often the life that one does not lead.”
Oscar Wilde (1854–1900) Irish writer and poet