Oscar Wilde Essence Quotations

I really don't see anything romantic in proposing. It is very romantic to be in love. But there is nothing romantic about a definite proposal. Why, one may be accepted. One usually is, I believe. Then the excitement is all over. The very essence of romance is uncertainty. If ever I get married, I'll certainly try to forget the fact.

All thought is immoral. Its very essence is destruction. If you think of anything, you kill it. Nothing survives being thought of.

The essence of thought, as the essence of life, is growth.

Things are in their essence what we choose to make them. A thing is, according to the mode in which one looks at it.

Greek dress was in its essence inartistic. Nothing should reveal the body but the body.

The very essence of romance is uncertainty.