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“But beauty, real beauty, ends where an intellectual expression begins. Intellect is in itself a mode of exaggeration, and destroys the harmony of any face.”

Oscar Wilde book The Picture of Dorian Gray

Source: The Picture of Dorian Gray

“He wanted to be where no one would know who he was. He wanted to escape from himself.”

Oscar Wilde book The Picture of Dorian Gray

Source: The Picture of Dorian Gray

“I like talking to a brick wall- it's the only thing in the world that never contradicts me!”

Oscar Wilde Lady Windermere's Fan

Source: Lady Windermere's Fan

“Being natural is simply a pose, and the most irritating pose I know.”

Oscar Wilde book The Picture of Dorian Gray

Source: The Picture of Dorian Gray

“Sarcasm is the lowest form of wit.”

Oscar Wilde

Variant: Sarcasm is the lowest form of wit, but the highest form of intelligence.

“My dear boy, no woman is a genius. Women are a decorative sex. They never have anything to say, but they say it charmingly. Women represent the triumph of matter over mind, just as men represent the triumph of mind over morals.”

Oscar Wilde book The Picture of Dorian Gray

Source: The Picture of Dorian Gray

“Morality, like art, means drawing a line someplace.”

Oscar Wilde

“I'm a man of simple tastes. I'm always satisfied with the best.”

Oscar Wilde

Variant: I have simple tastes. I am always satisfied with the best

“Oscar Wilde was suing the Marquis of Queensbury in 1895 for libel accusing Wilde of homosexuality

Counsel: Have you ever adored a young man madly?
Wilde: I have never given adoration to anyone except myself.”

Oscar Wilde

“Lord Illingworth: Discontent is the first step in the progress of a man or a nation.”

Oscar Wilde A Woman of No Importance

Act II
A Woman of No Importance (1893)

“It is through art, and through art only, that we can realize our perfection; through art and art only that we can shield ourselves from the sordid perils of actual existence.”

Oscar Wilde

The Critic as Artist (1891), Part II

“Women, as some witty Frenchman once put it, inspire us with the desire to do masterpieces and always prevent us from carrying them out.”

Oscar Wilde

Source: The Picture of Dorian Gray and Other Writings

“The soul is a terrible reality. It can be bought and sold and bartered away.”

Oscar Wilde book The Picture of Dorian Gray

Source: The Picture of Dorian Gray

“Wisdom comes with winters”

Oscar Wilde

“The gods are strange. It is not our vices only they make instruments to scourge us. They bring us to ruin through what in us is good, gentle, humane, loving.”

Oscar Wilde book De Profundis

Source: De Profundis

“Indeed, no woman should ever be quite accurate about her age. It looks so calculating.”

Oscar Wilde The Importance of Being Earnest

Source: The Importance of Being Earnest

“My dear fellow, the truth isn't quite the sort of thing one tells to a nice, sweet, refined girl.”

Oscar Wilde The Importance of Being Earnest

Jack, Act I
Source: The Importance of Being Earnest (1895)

“I am happy in my prison of passion”

Oscar Wilde book The Picture of Dorian Gray

Source: The Picture of Dorian Gray