Oscar Wilde: Trending quotes (page 18)

“From the moment I met you, your personality had the most extraordinary influence over me. I was dominated, soul brain and power.”

“Literature always anticipates life. It doesn't copy it but moulds it to it's purpose.”

“Is insincerity such a terrible thing? I think not. It is merely a method by which we can multiply our personalities.”

“So with curious eyes and sick surmise
We watched him day by day,
And wondered if each one of us
Would end the self-same way,
For none can tell to what red Hell
His sightless soul may stray.”

“To get back one's youth one has merely to repeat one's follies.”

“I hope you hair curls naturally, does it?
Yes, darling, with a little help from others.”

“Seriousness is the only refuge of the shallow.”

“The proper basis for marriage is a mutual misunderstanding.”

“I am sick to death of cleverness. Everybody is clever nowadays. You can’t go anywhere without meeting clever people. The thing has become an absolute public nuisance. I wish to goodness we had a few fools left.”

“The final revelation is that Lying, the telling of beautiful untrue things, is the proper aim of Art.”

“Bad artists always admire each others work.”

“Conscience makes egotists of us all.”

“For he who lives more lives than one
More deaths than one must die.”

“Most people live for love and admiration. But it is by love and admiration that we should live.”

“A man who takes himself too seriously will find that no one else takes him seriously.”

“Experience is a question of instinct about life.”

“I'm too old to know everything”

“As for omens, there is no such thing as an omen. Destiny does not send us heralds. She is too wise or too cruel for that.”

“We live in an age that reads too much to be wise, and that thinks too much to be beautiful.”