Oscar Wilde Quotes About Chaos

• They've promised that dreams can come true - but forgot to mention that nightmares are dreams, too.

  Oscar Wilde

  Dream, Chaos, Nightmare

• Without order nothing can exist-without chaos nothing can evolve. Nowadays people know the price of everything and the value of nothing.

  Oscar Wilde

  Thoughtful, Order, People

  The Picture of Dorian Gray ch. 4 (1891). In Wilde's play LadyWindermere's Fan, act 3 (1892), Lord Darlington replies to the question "What is a cynic?": "A man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing."

• Actual life was chaos, but there was something terribly logical in the imagination. It was the imagination that set remorse to dog the feet of sin. It was the imagination that made each crime bear its misshapen brood. In the common world of fact the wicked were not punished, nor the good rewarded. Success was given to the strong, failure thrust upon the weak. That was all.

  Oscar Wilde

  Dog, Strong, Feet

  Oscar Wilde, General Press (2016). “The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: Novel, Short Stories, Poetry, Essays and Plays”, p.152, GENERAL PRESS

• His style is chaos illumined by flashes of lightning. As a writer he has mastered everything except language.

  Oscar Wilde

  Writing, Style, Lightning

  Oscar Wilde, Isobel Murray (2008). “Oscar Wilde - The Major Works”, p.221, Oxford University Press

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