Plays, Prose Writings and Poems Quotes

“The truths of metaphysics are the truths of masks.”
― Oscar Wilde, Plays, Prose Writings, and Poems

“At present, people see fogs, not because there are fogs, but because poets and painters have taught them the mysterious loveliness of such effects. There may have been fogs for centuries in London. I dare say there were. But no one saw them, and so we do not know anything about them. They did not exist till art had invented them.”
― Oscar Wilde, Plays, Prose Writings, and Poems

“If you pretend to be good, the world takes you very seriously. If you pretend to be bad, it doesn't. Such is the astounding stupidity of optimism.”
― Oscar Wilde, Plays, Prose Writings and Poems

“The moon peered through a mane of tawny clouds, as if it were a lion's eye, and innumerable stars spangled the hollow vault, like a gold dust powdered on a purple dome.”
― Oscar Wilde, Plays, Prose Writings and Poems