Oscar Wilde Emotion Quotations

Faithfulness is to the emotional life what consistency is to the life of the intellect - simply a confession of failures.

The emotions of man are stirred more quickly than man’s intelligence.

The advantage of the emotions is that they lead us astray.

A sentimentalist is simply one who desires to have the luxury of an emotion without paying for it.

The secret of life is never to have an emotion that is unbecoming.

The real weakness of England lies, not in incomplete armaments or unfortified coasts, not in the poverty that creeps through sunless lanes, or the drunkenness that brawls in loathsome courts, but simply in the fact that her ideals are emotional and not intellectual.

There is no mode of action, no form of emotion, that we do not share with the lower animals. It is only by language that we rise above them...

There is no such thing as morality or immorality in thought. There is immoral emotion.

The true critic is he who bears within himself the dreams and ideas and feelings of myriad generations, and to whom no form of thought is alien, no emotional impulse obscure.

The secret of remaining young is never to have an emotion that is unbecoming.

I don't want to be at the mercy of my emotions. I want to use them, to enjoy them, and to dominate them.