Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
Mere color, unspoiled by meaning, and unallied with definite form, can speak to the soul in a thousand different ways.
Oscar Wilde
Share
Change background
T
T
T
Change font
Original
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
Ways
Speak
Unspoiled
Form
Definite
Soul
Colour
Different
Mere
Way
Meaning
Thousand
Color
More quotes by Oscar Wilde
Pleasure is Nature's test, her sign of approval.
Oscar Wilde
The Roman Catholic Church is for saints and sinners alone - for respectable people, the Anglican Church will do.
Oscar Wilde
Ones real life is often the life that one does not lead.
Oscar Wilde
The English public always feels perfectly at ease when a mediocrity is talking to it.
Oscar Wilde
Diversity of opinion about a work of art shows that the work is new, complex, and vital.
Oscar Wilde
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
We in the House of Lords are never in touch with public opinion. That makes us a civilised body.
Oscar Wilde
If a friend of mine gave a feast, and did not invite me to it, I should not mind a bit. But if a friend of mine had a sorrow and refused to allow me to share it, I should feel it most bitterly.
Oscar Wilde
Anybody can be good in the country. There are no temptations there.
Oscar Wilde
A man can be happy with any woman, as long as he does not love her.
Oscar Wilde
Conversation should touch everything, but should concentrate itself on nothing.
Oscar Wilde
Be yourself everyone else is taken.
Oscar Wilde
When I think of all the harm [the Bible] has done, I despair of ever writing anything to equal it.
Oscar Wilde
I will not bare my soul to their shallow prying eyes. My heart shall never be put under their microscope.
Oscar Wilde
The only horrible thing in the world is ennui.
Oscar Wilde
My experience is that as soon as people are old enough to know better, they don't know anything at all.
Oscar Wilde
The reason we are so pleased to find other people's secrets is that it distracts public attention from our own.
Oscar Wilde
The true critic is he who bears within himself the dreams and ideas and feelings of myriad generations, and to whom no form of thought is alien, no emotional impulse obscure.
Oscar Wilde
A man who moralizes is a hypocrite, and a woman who does so is invariably plain.
Oscar Wilde
The nineteenth century is a turning point in history, simply on account of the work of two men, Darwin and Renan, the one the critic of the Book of Nature, the other the critic of the books of God. Not to recognise this is to miss the meaning of one of the most important eras in the progress of the world.
Oscar Wilde
