Quote

I was dominated, soul, brain, and power by you. You became to me the visible incarnation of that unseen ideal whose memory haunts us artists like an exquisite dream.

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
Whose
Exquisite
Memories
Unseen
Brain
Ideal
Artist
Visible
Dream
Ideals
Power
Artists
Haunts
Soul
Memory
Dominated
Like
Became
Incarnation

More quotes by Oscar Wilde

Image
I can't help detesting my relations. I suppose it comes from the fact that none of us can stand other people having the same faults as ourselves.
Oscar Wilde
Image
In war, the strong make slaves of the weak, and in peace the rich makes slaves of the poor.
Oscar Wilde
Image
The birds that were singing in the dew-drenched garden seemed to be telling the flowers about her.
Oscar Wilde
Image
An idea that is not dangerous is unworthy of being called an idea at all.
Oscar Wilde
Image
Grass is hard and lumpy and damp, and full of dreadful black insects.
Oscar Wilde
Image
Each of us has heaven and hell in him.
Oscar Wilde
Image
The supreme object of life is to live. Few people live. It is true life only to realize one's own perfection, to make one's every dream a reality.
Oscar Wilde
Image
Thinking is the most unhealthy thing in the world, and people die of it just as they die of any other disease. Fortunately, in England at any rate, thought is not catching.
Oscar Wilde
Image
Well, I don't like your clothes. You look perfectly ridiculous in them. Why on earth don't you go up and change? It's perfectly childish to be in mourning for a man who is actually staying a whole week with you in your house as a guest. I call it grotesque.
Oscar Wilde
Image
I have said to you to speak the truth is a painful thing. To be forced to tell lies is much worse.
Oscar Wilde
Image
Suffering is one very long moment. We cannot divide it by seasons. We can only record its moods, and chronicle their return. With us time itself does not progress. It revolves. It seems to circle round one center of pain.
Oscar Wilde
Image
Nothing is so aggravating as calmness. There is something positively brutal about the good temper of most modern men.
Oscar Wilde
Image
It seems to me that we all look at Nature too much, and live with her too little.
Oscar Wilde
Image
I would not a bit mind sleeping in the cool grass in summer, and when winter came on sheltering myself by the warm close-thatched rick, or under the penthouse of a great barn, provided I had love in my heart.
Oscar Wilde
Image
It is perfectly possible to get what you think you want and be miserable. It's possible too, to never get it but deeply enjoy the process of trying. In this world, there are only two tragedies. One is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it.
Oscar Wilde
Image
He would stab his best friend for the sake of writing an epigraph on his tombstone.
Oscar Wilde
Image
America is the noisiest country that ever existed. One is waked up in the morning, not by the singing of the nightingale, but by the steam whistle.
Oscar Wilde
Image
Don't be discouraged if your children reject your advice. Years later they will offer it to their own offspring.
Oscar Wilde
Image
There is one thing worse than an absolutely loveless marriage: a marriage in which there is love, but on one side only.
Oscar Wilde
Image
What art seeks to disturb is monotony of type, slavery of custom, tyranny of habit, and the reduction of man to the level of a machine.
Oscar Wilde