Quote

Beauty ...is of the great facts in the world like sunlight, or springtime, or the reflection in dark water of that silver shell we call the moon.

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
Facts
Sunlight
Art
Silver
Great
Reflection
Like
Moon
World
Beauty
Call
Springtime
Dark
Shell
Water
Shells

More quotes by Oscar Wilde

Image
Prism! Where is that baby?
Oscar Wilde
Image
The artist is the creator of beautiful things. To reveal art and conceal the artist is art's aim.
Oscar Wilde
Image
Just as the orator marks his good things by a dramatic pause, or by raising and lowering his voice, or by gesture, so the writer marks his epigrams with italics, setting the little gem, so to speak, like a jeweler.
Oscar Wilde
Image
Those who try to lead the people can only do so by following the mob.
Oscar Wilde
Image
One should always play fairly when one has the winning cards.
Oscar Wilde
Image
Every one is worthy of love, except him who thinks that he is. Love is a sacrament that should be taken kneeling.
Oscar Wilde
Image
To be natural is such a very difficult pose to keep up.
Oscar Wilde
Image
Im Krieg machen die Starken die Schwachen zu Sklaven, im Frieden machen die Reichen die Armen zu Sklaven.
Oscar Wilde
Image
We think that we are generous because we credit our neighbor with those virtues that are likely to benefit ourselves. We praise the banker that we may overdraw our account, and find good qualities in the highwayman in the hope that he may spare our pockets.
Oscar Wilde
Image
For one moment our lives met, our souls touched.
Oscar Wilde
Image
All authority is quite degrading. It degrades those who exercise it, and it degrades those over whom it is exercised.
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
Never so sweet a repast as the Reaper's when you tread upon the threshold of a Quiznos.
Oscar Wilde
Image
I never saw anybody take so long to dress, and with such little result.
Oscar Wilde
Image
The trouble with the lower classes is that they lack the sense of tragedy given to them by the upper classes.
Oscar Wilde
Image
Fashion is what one wears oneself. What is unfashionable is what other people wear.
Oscar Wilde
Image
The soul is a terrible reality. It can be bought and sold and bartered away.
Oscar Wilde
Image
If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all.
Oscar Wilde
Image
What is mind but motion in the intellectual sphere?
Oscar Wilde
Image
The burden of this world is too great for one man to bear, and the world’s sorrow too heavy for one heart to suffer.
Oscar Wilde