Oscar Wilde: Trending quotes (page 11)

“The more one analyses people, the more all reasons for analysis disappear. Sooner or later one comes to that dreadful universal thing called human nature.”

“To give an accurate description of what has never occurred is not merely the proper occupation of the historian, but the inalienable privilege of any man of parts and culture.”

“It is in the brain, and the brain only, that the great sins of the world take place”

“She wore far too much rouge last night and not quite enough clothes. That is always a sign of despair in a woman.”

“Millionaire models are rare enough; but, by Jove, model millionaires are rarer still!”

“I never read a book I must review; it prejudices you so.”

“A truth ceases to be true when more than one person believes in it.”

“Youth is the only thing worth having.”

“Behind the perfection of a man's style, must lie the passion of a man's soul.”

“In old days men had the rack. Now they have the press.”

“Basil Hallward is what I think I am: Lord Henry what the world thinks me: Dorian what I would like to be—in other ages, perhaps.”

“The burden of this world is too great for one man to bear, and the world’s sorrow too heavy for one heart to suffer.”

“because to influence a person is to give one's own soul.”

“The world is made by the singer for the dreamer.”

“The only thing I cannot resist is temptation.”

“Ridicule is the tribute paid to the genius by the mediocrities”

“I am not at all cynical, I have merely got experience, which, however, is very much the same thing.”

“Would you like to know the great drama of my life? It is that I have put my genius into my life… I have put only my talent into my works.”

“but the bravest man among us is afraid of himself”