More than half of modern culture depends upon what one shouldn't read. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
The modern sympathy with invalids is morbid. Illness of any kind is hardly a thing to be encouraged in others. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
I should have remembered that when one is going to lead an entirely new life, one requires regular and wholesome meals. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
When people talk to me about the weather, I always feel they mean something else. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Really, if the lower orders don't set a good example, what on earth is the use of them? — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Well, one must be serious about something, if one wants to have any amusement in life. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
The chin a little higher, dear. Style largely depends on the way the chin is worn. They are worn very high, just… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
An engagement should come on a young girl as a surprise, pleasant or unpleasant as the case may be. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
I've now realised for the first time in my life the vital Importance of Being Earnest. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Gwendolen, from The Importance of Being Earnest I never travel without my diary. One should always have something sensational to read on… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
In England ... education produces no effect whatsoever. If it did, it would prove a serious danger to the upper classes, and… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“Speak frankly, I am not in favour of long engagements. They give people the opportunity of finding out each other’s character before… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
And certainly once a man begins to neglect his domestic duties he becomes painfully effeminate, does he not? And I don't like… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
It is awfully hard work doing nothing. However, I don't mind hard work when there is no definite object of any kind.… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
What between the duties expected of one during one's lifetime, and the duties exacted from one after one's death, land has ceased… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
I do not approve of anything that tampers with natural ignorance. Ignorance is like a delicate exotic fruit; touch it and the… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Miss Prism: ... And you do not seem to reealize, dear Doctor, that by persistently remaining single, a man coverts himself 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
