Life is never fair, and perhaps it is a good thing for most of us that it is not. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Literature always anticipates life. It doesn't copy it but moulds it to it's purpose. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
I think life too complex a thing to be settled by these hard and fast rules. — 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
“I have grown to love secrecy. It seems to be the one thing that can make modern life mysterious or marvellous to… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
We can have in life but one great experience at best, and the secret of life is to reproduce that experience as… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“it is always the women who propose to us, and not we who propose to the women. Except, of course, in middle-class… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“He was trying to gather up the scarlet threads of life and weave them into a pattern; to find his way through… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Anybody can write a three-volume novel. It merely requires a complete ignorance of both life and literature. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
I wrote when I did not know life; now that I do know the meaning of life, I have no more to… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Every American bride is taken there [Niagara Falls], and the sight of the stupendous waterfall must be one of the earliest, if… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“The visible aspect of modern life disturbs him not; rather is it for him to render eternal all that is beautiful in… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
But what of life whose bitter hungry sea Flows at our heels, and gloom of sunless night Covers the days which never… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“In every sphere of life, form is the beginning of things. […] Forms are the food of faith, cried Newman in one… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“You love the beauty that you can see and touch and handle, the beauty that you can destroy, and do destroy, but… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“With the abolition of private property, then, we shall have true, beautiful, healthy Individualism. Nobody will waste his life in accumulating things,… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
My life-my whole life- take it, and do with it what you will. I love you-love you as I have never loved… — 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
In spite of the roaring of the young lions at the Union, and the screaming of the rabbits in the home of… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Lord Darlington (LD): I think life too complex a thing to be settled by these hard and fast rules. Lady Windemere (LW):… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live, it is asking others to live as one wishes to live. And unselfishness… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“Up to the present man has hardly cultivated sympathy at all. He has merely sympathy with pain, and sympathy with pain is… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“We all take such pains to over-educate ourselves. In the wild struggle for existence, we want to have something that endures, and… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
JACK That is nonsense. If I marry a charming girl like Gwendolen, and she is the only girl I ever saw in… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
The great events of life often leave one unmoved; they pass out of consciousness, and, when thinks of them, become unreal. Even… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“the people who love only once in their lives are really the shallow people. What they call their loyalty, and their fidelity,… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“I love you, I love you, my heart is a rose which your love has brought to bloom, my life is a… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“Love is the sacrament of life; it sets Virtue where virtue was not; cleanses men Of all the vile pollutions of this… — 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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