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  • Oscar Wilde Quotes   1859
  • There are moments, psychologists tell us, when the passion for sin, or what the world calls sin, so dominates a nature, that every fibre of the body, as every cell of the brain, seems to be instinct with fearful impulses. Men and women at such moments lose the freedom of their will. They move to their terrible end as automatons move. Choice is taken from them, and conscience is either killed, or, if it lives at all, lives but to give rebellion its fascination, and disobedience its charm.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Oscar Wilde Quotes , Taken Quotes , Moving Quotes
  • When our eyes met, I felt that I was growing pale. A curious sensation of terror came over me. I knew that I had come face to face with some one whose mere personality was so fascinating that, if I allowed it to do so, it would absorb my whole nature, my whole soul, my very art itself.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Oscar Wilde Quotes , Art Quotes , Eye Quotes
  • The liar at any rate recognizes that recreation, not instruction, is the aim of conversation, and is a far more civilized being than the blockhead who loudly expresses his disbelief in a story which is told simply for the amusement of the company.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Oscar Wilde Quotes , Liars Quotes , Lying Quotes