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  • Oscar Wilde Quotes   1859
  • Any place you love is the world to you”, explained the pensive Catherine Wheel, who had been attached to an old deal box in early life, and prided herself on her broken heart; “but love is not fashionable any more, the poets have killed it. They wrote so much about that nobody believed them, and I am not surprised. True love suffers, and is silent. I remember myself once- But it is no matter now. Romance is a thing of the past.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Oscar Wilde Quotes , Heart Quotes , Past Quotes
  • The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it. Resist it, and your soul grows sick with longing for the things it has forbidden to itself, with desire for what its monstrous laws have made monstrous and unlawful.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Oscar Wilde Quotes , Yield Quotes , Law Quotes
  • I love hearing my relations abused. It is the only thing that makes me put up with them at all. Relations are simply a tedious pack of people, who haven't got the remotest knowledge of how to live nor the smallest instinct about when to die.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Oscar Wilde Quotes , People Quotes , Hearing Quotes
  • every portrait that is painted with feeling is a portrait of the artist, not of the sitter. The sitter is merely the accident, the occasion. It is not he who is revealed by the painter; it is rather the painter who, on the coloured canvas, reveals himself.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Oscar Wilde Quotes , Artist Quotes , Feelings Quotes