Quote

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

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
Cannot
May
Reason
Trying
Apart
Things
Behinds
Behind
Terrible
Reality

More quotes by Oscar Wilde

Image
I don't like novels that end happily. They depress me so much
Oscar Wilde
Image
There is nothing so difficult to marry as a large nose.
Oscar Wilde
Image
Some temptations are so great it takes great courage to yield to them.
Oscar Wilde
Image
I don't like Switzerland it has produced nothing but theologians and waiters.
Oscar Wilde
Image
There is only one real tragedy in a woman's life. The fact that her past is always her lover, and her future invariably her husband.
Oscar Wilde
Image
Tell the cook of this restaurant with my compliments that these are the very worst sandwiches in the whole world, and that, when I ask for a watercress sandwich, I do not mean a loaf with a field in the middle of it.
Oscar Wilde
Image
Oh, I love London Society! It is entirely composed now of beautiful idiots and brilliant lunatics. Just what Society should be.
Oscar Wilde
Image
Life is not complex. We are complex. Life is simple, and the simple thing is the right thing.
Oscar Wilde
Image
The curves of your lips rewrite history.
Oscar Wilde
Image
If people were meant to be nude, they would have been born this way.
Oscar Wilde
Image
Nowadays we are all of us so hard up that the only pleasant things to pay are compliments. They’re the only things we can pay.
Oscar Wilde
Image
On the whole, the great success of marriage in the States is due partly to the fact that no American man is ever idle, and partly to the fact that no American wife is considered responsible for the quality of her husband's dinners.
Oscar Wilde
Image
I have learned this: it is not what one does that is wrong, but what one becomes as a consequence of it.
Oscar Wilde
Image
As I lounged in the Park, or strolled down Piccadilly, I used to look at everyone who passed me, and wonder, with mad curiosity, what sort of lives they led. some of them fascinated me. Others filled me with terror.
Oscar Wilde
Image
Taking sides is the beginning of sincerity, and earnestness follows shortly afterwards, and the human being becomes a bore.
Oscar Wilde
Image
Learn to differentiate between ignorance and stupidity.
Oscar Wilde
Image
A man who is master of himself can end a sorrow as easily as he can invent a pleasure.
Oscar Wilde
Image
Every portrait that is painted with feeling is a portrait of the artist, not of the sitter.
Oscar Wilde
Image
True contentment is not having everything, but in being satisfied with everything you have.
Oscar Wilde
Image
Every American bride is taken there [Niagara Falls], and the sight of the stupendous waterfall must be one of the earliest, if not the keenest, disappointments in American married life.
Oscar Wilde