“I find him in the curves of certain lines, in the loveliness and subtleties of certain colours.”
Oscar Wilde book The Picture of Dorian Gray
Source: The Picture of Dorian Gray
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“But she is happiest alone. She is happiest alone.”
Oscar Wilde A Woman of No Importance
Source: A Woman of No Importance
“Genius lasts longer than beauty”
Oscar Wilde book The Picture of Dorian Gray
Source: The Picture of Dorian Gray
Pt. IV, st. 23 -- Wilde's epitaph
The Ballad of Reading Gaol (1898)
Source: The Picture of Dorian Gray and Other Writings
“As for believing things, I can believe anything, provided that it is quite incredible.”
Oscar Wilde book The Picture of Dorian Gray
Variant: I can believe anything provided it is incredible.
Source: The Picture of Dorian Gray
“You told me you had destroyed it."
"I was wrong. It has destroyed me.”
Oscar Wilde book The Picture of Dorian Gray
Source: The Picture of Dorian Gray
“It's the spectator, and not life, that art really mirrors.”
Source: Miscellaneous Aphorisms; The Soul of Man
“What men call the shadow of the body is not the shadow of the body, but is the body of the soul.”
Oscar Wilde book A House of Pomegranates
Source: A House of Pomegranates
“I've now realized for the first time in my life the vital Importance of Being Earnest.”
Oscar Wilde The Importance of Being Earnest
Jack, Act III
Source: The Importance of Being Earnest (1895)
“It is a very sad thing that nowadays there is so little useless information.”
A Few Maxims for the Instruction of the Over-Educated (1894)