“It is absurd to have a hard and fast rule about what one should read and what one shouldn't.” — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
It is absurd to say that the age of miracles is past. It has not yet begun. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
I never approve, or disapprove, of anything now. It is an absurd attitude to take towards life. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
It is absurd to say that there are neither ruins nor curiosities in America when they have their mothers and their manners. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
You can't possibly ask me to go without having some dinner. It's absurd. I never go without my dinner. No one ever… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“It's absurd to have a hard and fast rule about what one should read and what one shouldn't. More than half of… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Yes; poor Bunbury is a dreadful invalid. Well, I must say, Algernon, that I think it is high time that Mr. Bunbury… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
What is a cynic? A man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing. And a sentimentalist, my dear… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
You have always told me it was Ernest. I have introduced you to every one as Ernest. You answer to the name… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
It often happens that the real tragedies of life occur in such an inartistic manner that they hurt us by their crude… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
The public has always, and in every age, been badly brought up. They are continually asking Art to be popular, to please… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
This ghastly state of things is what you call Bunburying, I suppose? Algernon. Yes, and a perfectly wonderful Bunbury it is. The… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
I never approve, or disapprove, of anything now. It is an absurd attitude to take towards life. We are not sent into… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
The books that the world calls immoral are the books that show the world its own shame. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share
Bachelors should be heavily taxed. It is not fair that some men should be happier than others — Oscar Wilde Copy Share
“Basil my dear boy puts everything that is charming in him into his work. The consequence is that he has nothing left for life… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share
I don't at all like knowing what people say of me behind my back. It makes me far too conceited. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share
“If these elements of beauty are real, the whole thing simply appeals to our sense of dramatic effect. Suddenly we find that we are… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share
“Those who find beautiful meanings in beautiful things are the cultivated. For these there is hope.” — Oscar Wilde Copy Share
Men always want to be a womans first love. Women have a more subtle instinct: What they like is to be a mans last… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share
Why is it that at a bachelor's establishment the servants invariably drink the champagne. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share
Moderation is a fatal thing. Enough is as bad as a meal. More than enough is as good as a feast. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share
Beauty is the only thing that time cannot harm. Philosophies fall away like sand, creeds follow one another, but what is beautiful is a… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share
