4 Oscar Wilde Quotes on Imagination

Oscar Wilde quotes on imagination

10. Consistency is the last refuge of the unimaginative.

42. To be good, according to the vulgar standard of goodness, is obviously quite easy. It merely requires a certain amount of sordid terror, a certain lack of imaginative thought, and a certain low passion for middle-class respectability.

82. The people who love only once in their lives are really the shallow people. What they call their loyalty, and their fidelity, I call either the lethargy of custom or their lack of imagination. Faithfulness is to the emotional life what consistency is to the life of the intellect - simply a confession of failure.

236. Illusion is the first of all pleasures.