Oscar Wilde Quotes About Reality

• One can survive everything, nowadays, except death, and live down everything except a good reputation.

  Oscar Wilde

  Life, Death, Reality

• I treated Art as the supreme reality and life as a mere mode of fiction.

  Oscar Wilde

  Life, Art, Reality

  Letter to Alfred Douglas, Jan. - Mar. 1897

• The soul is a terrible reality. It can be bought and sold and bartered away.

  Oscar Wilde

  Reality, Soul, Terrible

  Oscar Wilde, Moira Muldoon (2005). “The Picture of Dorian Gray and Other Writings”, p.230, Simon and Schuster

• The way of paradoxes is the way of truth. To test Reality we must see it on the tight-rope.

  Oscar Wilde

  Happiness, Reality, Rope

  Oscar Wilde (2015). “The Picture of Dorian Gray”, p.50, First Avenue Editions

• The best one can say of modern creative art is that it is just a little less vulgar than reality.

  Oscar Wilde

  Art, Reality, Creative

• The supreme object of life is to live. Few people live. It is true life only to realize one's own perfection, to make one's every dream a reality.

  Oscar Wilde

  Dream, Reality, People

  Oscar Wilde (1997). “Nothing...Except My Genius”, p.30, Penguin UK

• God's eternal laws are kind-and break the heart of stone.

  Oscar Wilde

  Heart, Reality, Law

  Oscar Wilde (2014). “Ballad of Reading Gaol”, p.34, Simon and Schuster

• If one doesn't talk about a thing, it has never happened. It is simply expression that gives reality to things.

  Oscar Wilde

  Reality, Expression, Giving

  Oscar Wilde (2015). “The Picture of Dorian Gray (Diversion Classics)”, p.118, Diversion Books

• Ideals are dangerous things. Realities are better. They wound, but they're better.

  Oscar Wilde

  Reality, Dangerous, Ideals

  Oscar Wilde (2013). “The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde (more than 150 Works)”, p.281, e-artnow

• There are few of us who have not sometimes wakened before dawn, either after one of those dreamless nights that make one almost enamoured of death, or one of those nights of horror and misshapen joy, when through the chambers of the brain sweep phantoms more terrible than reality itself, and instinct with that vivid life that lurks in all grotesques, and that lends to Gothic art its enduring vitality, this art being, one might fancy, especially the art of those whose minds have been troubled with the malady of reverie.

  Oscar Wilde

  Art, Night, Reality

  Oscar Wilde (2007). “The Collected Works of Oscar Wilde”, p.92, Wordsworth Editions

• If one were to live his life fully and completely were to give form to every feeling, expression to every thought, reality to every dream.

  Oscar Wilde

  Dream, Reality, Expression

  Oscar Wilde, Russell Jackson, Joseph Bristow, Ian Small (2000). “The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: The picture of Dorian Gray : the 1890 and 1891 texts”, p.183, Oxford University Press on Demand

• Indeed, as any one who has ever worked among the poor knows only too well, the brotherhood of man is no mere poet's dream, it is a most depressing and humiliating reality.

  Oscar Wilde

  Dream, Depressing, Reality

  "The Artist as Critic: Critical Writings of Oscar Wilde".

• 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

  Reality, Trying, May

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