Oscar Wilde Quotes

Reality doesn't have to be plausible. Reality can be as preposterous as it pleases.

A thing may be too sad to be believed or too wicked to be believed or too good to be believed; but it cannot be too absurd to be believed in this planet of frogs and elephants, of crocodiles and cuttle-fish.

This is the most unheard of thing that I have ever heard of

We're always aiming for storytelling that feels a bit surreal.

What is too absurd to be believed is believed because it is too absurd to be a lie.

One can't believe impossible things.

There's nothing like the unimaginable to make people believe.

If I had a world of my own, everything would be nonsense. Nothing would be what it is, because everything would be what it isn't. And contrariwise, what it is, it wouldn't be. And what it wouldn't be it would. You see?

Truth is always strange, stranger than fiction.

It's insane but it's a great insane.

I love anything that's sort of surreal and with fantasy.

The one thing about reality is sometimes it gives you material that is wilder than some of your wildest imagination could come up with.

A lot of times, real life is more surreal than writing.

I look out the chair while eating my pillow. I open the wall, I walk with my ears. I have ten eyes to walk with and two fingers to look with. I put my head on the floor to sit down, I put my bottom on the ceiling. After eating the music box, I spread jam on the rug for a great dessert.

The circus allows one to be logical and unreal at the same time. In the circus, all is possible: there can be a man with two heads or a character with a green face.

I think real life is weirder than fiction.

I try to make everyone's day a little more surreal.

I am probably in the sky, flying with the fish, or maybe in the ocean, swimming with the pigeons. See, my world is different.

Of all the weaknesses little men rail against, there is none that they are more apt to ridicule than the tendency to believe. And of all the signs of a corrupt heart and a feeble head, the tendency of incredulity is the surest. Real philosophy seeks rather to solve than to deny.

O wonderful, wonderful, and most wonderful wonderful! And yet again wonderful, and after that, out of all hooping.

The ships hung in the sky in much the same way that bricks don't.

It was like the Wizard of Oz had spoken, and what he said was too ludicrous to take seriously.

For instance," said the boy again, "if Christmas trees were people and people were Christmas trees, we'd all be chopped down, put up in the living room, and covered in tinsel, while the trees opened our presents." "What does that have to do with it?" asked Milo. "Nothing at all," he answered, "but it's an interesting possibility, don't you think?

You can laugh! But people used to believe there were no such things as the Blibbering Humdinger or the Crumple-Horned Snorkack!

Well! I've often seen a cat without a grin,' thought Alice 'but a grin without a cat! It's the most curious thing i ever saw in my life!