I delight in men over seventy. They always offer one the devotion of a lifetime. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
No woman should ever be quite accurate about her age. It looks so calculating. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Pleasure is the only thing one should live for, nothing ages like happiness. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
In a very ugly and sensible age, the arts borrow, not from life, but from each other. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
It takes great deal of courage to see the world in all its tainted glory, and still to love it. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
The tragedy of growing old is not that one is old but that one is young. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“Indeed, no woman should ever be quite accurate about her age. It looks so calculating.” — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
When I had to fill in my immigration papers, I gave my age as 19, and my profession as genius; I added… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
One should never make one's debut in a scandal. One should reserve that to give interest to one's old age. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
The spirit of an age may be best expressed in the abstract ideal arts, for the spirit itself is abstract and ideal. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
I am but too conscious of the fact that we are born in an age when only the dull are treated seriously,… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Never trust a woman who wears mauve, whatever her age may be, or a woman over thirty-five who is fond of pink… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
We call ours a utilitarian age, and we do not know the uses of any single thing. We have forgotten that water… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
One should never trust a woman who tells one her real age. A woman who would tell one that would tell one… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Individualism has really the higher aim. Modern morality consists in accepting the standard of one's age. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
I am but too conscious of the fact that we are born in an age when only the dull are treated seriously,… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
He had uttered a mad wish that he himself might remain untarnished, and the face on the canvas bear the burden of… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
She was a curious woman, whose dresses always looked as if they had been designed in a rage and put on in… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Each of the professions means a prejudice. The necessity for a career forces every one to take sides. We live in the… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
An artist should create beautiful things, but should put nothing of his own life into them. We live in an age when… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
The proper basis for marriage is mutual misunderstanding. The happiness of a married man depends on the people he has not married.… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Every one of course represents the spirit of his age, but there is an eternal aspect of the Spirit of every age… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“People are afraid of themselves, nowadays. They have forgotten the highest of all duties, the duty that one owes to one's self.… — 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
In war," answered the weaver, "the strong make slaves of the weak, and in peace the rich make slaves of the poor.… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
There was something terribly enthralling in the exercise of influence. No other activity was like it. To project one's soul into some… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Poets are not so scrupulous as you are. They know how useful passion is for publication. Nowadays a broken heart will run… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
What a silly thing love is!' said the student as he walked away. 'It is not half as useful as logic, for… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
A bishop keeps on saying at the age of eighty what he was told to say at the age of eighteen. — 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
“But youth smiles without any reason. It is one of its chiefest charms.” — 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
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