Quotes about Perception
After the first glass, you see things as you wish they were. After the second, you see things as they are not. Finally, you see things as they really are, and that is the most horrible thing in the world.
— Oscar Wilde
You are a wonderful creation. You know more than you think you know, just as you know less than you want to know.
— Oscar Wilde
Mere color, unspoiled by meaning, and unallied with definite form, can speak to the soul in a thousand different ways.
— Oscar Wilde
Ideals are dangerous things. Realities are better. They wound, but they're better.
— Oscar Wilde
Every effect that one produces gives one an enemy. To be popular one must be a mediocrity.
— Oscar Wilde
The great events of the world take place in the brain...
— Oscar Wilde
I didn't say I liked it Harry. I said it fascinated me. There is a great difference.
— Oscar Wilde
If one plays good music, people don't listen, and if one plays bad music people don't talk.
— Oscar Wilde
It's the spectator, and not life, that art really mirrors.
— Oscar Wilde
Plain women are always jealous of their husbands. Beautiful women never are. They are always so occupied with being jealous of other women's husbands.
— Oscar Wilde
Basil Hallward is what I think I am: Lord Henry what the world thinks me: Dorian what I would like to be—in other ages, perhaps.
— Oscar Wilde
Pray don't talk to me about the weather, Mr. Worthing. Whenever people talk to me about the weather, I always feel quite certain that they mean something else. And that makes me quite nervous.
— Oscar Wilde