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“Sin is a thing that writes itself across a man's face. It cannot be concealed.”

Oscar Wilde book The Picture of Dorian Gray

Source: The Picture of Dorian Gray

“It is perfectly monstrous,' he said, at last, 'the way people go about nowadays saying things against one behind one's back that are absolutely and entirely true.”

Oscar Wilde book The Picture of Dorian Gray

Source: The Picture of Dorian Gray

“I'll bet you anything you like that half an hour after they have met, they will be calling each other sister.
Women only do that when they have called each other a lot of other things first.”

Oscar Wilde The Importance of Being Earnest

Source: The Importance of Being Earnest

“Man is many things, but he is not rational.”

Oscar Wilde book The Picture of Dorian Gray

Source: The Picture of Dorian Gray

“Yet each man kills the thing he loves
By each let this be heard,
Some do it with a bitter look,
Some with a flattering word,
The coward does it with a kiss,
The brave man with a sword!”

Oscar Wilde book The Ballad of Reading Gaol

Pt. I, st. 7.
The Ballad of Reading Gaol (1898)
Source: The Ballad Of Reading Gaol

“I wonder who it was defined man as a rational animal. It was the most premature definition ever given. Man is many things, but he is not rational.”

Oscar Wilde

Source: The Picture of Dorian Gray and Other Writings

“My life-my whole life- take it, and do with it what you will. I love you-love you as I have never loved any living thing. From the moment I met you I loved you, loved you blindly, adoringly, madly!

You didn't know it then-you know it now.”

Oscar Wilde Lady Windermere's Fan

Source: Lady Windermere's Fan

“Moderation is a fatal thing, Lady Hunstanton. Nothing succeeds like excess.”

Oscar Wilde A Woman of No Importance

Lord Illingworth, Act III
A Woman of No Importance (1893)

“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

“No great artist ever sees things as they really are. If he did, he would cease to be an artist.”

Oscar Wilde book The Decay of Lying

The Decay of Lying (1889)

“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 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

“If one doesn't talk about a thing, it has never happened. It is simply expression that gives reality to things.”

Oscar Wilde book The Picture of Dorian Gray

Source: The Picture of Dorian Gray

“Conscience and cowardice are really the same things, Basil. Conscience is the trade-name of the firm. That is all.”

Oscar Wilde book The Picture of Dorian Gray

Source: The Picture of Dorian Gray

“Gwendolen, it is a terrible thing for a man to find out suddenly that all his life he has been speaking nothing but the truth. Can you forgive me?”

Oscar Wilde The Importance of Being Earnest

Source: The Importance of Being Earnest

“Well I won't argue about the matter. You always want to argue about things.
That is exactly what things were originally made for.”

Oscar Wilde The Importance of Being Earnest

Source: The Importance of Being Earnest

“Ideals are dangerous things. Realities are better. They wound, but they're better.”

Oscar Wilde Lady Windermere's Fan

Source: Lady Windermere's Fan

“I love hearing my relations abused. It is the only thing that makes me put up with them at all. Relations are simply a tedious pack of people, who haven't got the remotest knowledge of how to live nor the smallest instinct about when to die.”

Oscar Wilde The Importance of Being Earnest

Source: The Importance of Being Earnest

“It's an odd thing, but anyone who disappears
is said to be seen in San Francisco.
It must be a delightful city and possess
all the attractions of the next world”

Oscar Wilde