Quote

She had a passion for secrecy, but she herself was merely a Sphinx without a secret.

Oscar Wilde

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Oscar Wilde
Age: 46 †
Born: 1854
Born: October 16
Died: 1900
Died: November 30
Author
Essayist
Journalist
Novelist
Opinion Journalist
Playwright
Poet
Prosaist
Short Story Writer
Writer
Dublin city
Oscar O'Flahertie Wills Wilde
Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde
Secrecy
Merely
Passion
Secret
Without
Sphinx

More quotes by Oscar Wilde

Image
I am very glad I have travelled. Travel improves the mind wonderfully, and does away with all one's prejudices.
Oscar Wilde
Image
Biography lends to death a new terror.
Oscar Wilde
Image
For, try as we may, we cannot get behind the appearence of things to reality. And the terrible reason may be that there is no reality in the things apart from their appearences.
Oscar Wilde
Image
Liberty is the chosen resort of the artistic shopper.
Oscar Wilde
Image
You know more than you think you know, just as you know less than you want to know.
Oscar Wilde
Image
Self-denial is simply a method by which arrests his progress, and self-sacrifice a survival of the mutilation of the savage.
Oscar Wilde
Image
If Nature had been comfortable, mankind would never have invented architecture.
Oscar Wilde
Image
There was so much in you that charmed me that I felt I must tell you something about yourself. I thought how tragic it would be if you were wasted.
Oscar Wilde
Image
Be yourself, because others are already taken.
Oscar Wilde
Image
At every single moment of one's life one is what one is going to be no less than what one has been.
Oscar Wilde
Image
Well, I can't eat muffins in an agitated manner. The butter would probably get on my cuffs.
Oscar Wilde
Image
Poor? What does that matter? When poverty creeps in at the door, love flies in through the window.
Oscar Wilde
Image
In England ... education produces no effect whatsoever. If it did, it would prove a serious danger to the upper classes, and would probably lead to acts of violence in Grosvenor Square.
Oscar Wilde
Image
It was you I thought of all the time, I gave to them the love you did not need: lavished on them a love that was not theirs.
Oscar Wilde
Image
My experience is that as soon as people are old enough to know better, they don't know anything at all.
Oscar Wilde
Image
Sin is a thing that writes itself across a man's face. It cannot be concealed.
Oscar Wilde
Image
The secret to life is to enjoy the pleasure of being terribly, terribly deceived.
Oscar Wilde
Image
Learn to differentiate between ignorance and stupidity.
Oscar Wilde
Image
Beauty is a form of genius -- is higher, indeed, than genius, as it needs no explanation.
Oscar Wilde
Image
The first duty in life is to be as artificial as possible. What the second duty is no one has as yet discovered.
Oscar Wilde