“And yet it seems to me to be the one thing I have been looking for all my life.” — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Fathers should be neither seen nor heard. That is the only proper basis for family life. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Life has been your art. You have set yourself to music. Your days are your sonnets. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Looking good and dressing well is a necessity. Having a purpose in life is not. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Ethics, like natural selection, make existence possible. Aesthetics, like sensual selection, make life lovely and wonderful, fill it with new forms, and… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
How long could you love a woman who didn't love you, Cecil? A woman who didn't love me? Oh, all my life! — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“One of the great secrets of life. Most people die of a sort of creeping common sense and discover too late that… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“try as we may we cannot get behind things to the reality. And the terrible reason may be that there is no… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live. It is asking other people to live as one wishes to live.” — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“You will see the girl to whom I am going to give all my life, to whom I have given everything that… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Ah, on what little things does happiness depend! I have read all that the wise men have written, and all the secrets… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
I have no objection to anyone's sex life as long as they don't practice it in the street and frighten the horses. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“The people who love only once in their lives are really the shallow people. (...) Faithfulness is to the emotional life what… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Life! Life! Don't let us go to life for our fulfillment or our experience. It is a thing narrowed by circumstances, incoherent… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“Jack: “Gwendolen, it is a terrible thing for a man to find out suddenly that all his life he has been speaking… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“Yes, death. Death must be so beautiful. To lie in the soft brown earth, with the grasses waving above one's head, and… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Perhaps one of the most difficult things for us to do is to choose a notable and joyous dress for men. There… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
A man's life is of more value than a woman's. It has larger issues, wider scope, greater ambitions. Our lives revolve in… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
That beauty which is meant by art is no mere accident of human life which people can take or leave, but a… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
God knows; I won't be an Oxford don anyhow. I'll be a poet, a writer, a dramatist. Somehow or other I'll be… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
In modern life nothing produces such an effect as a good platitude. It makes the whole world kin. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
To become a spectator of one's own life is to escape the suffering of life. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“It is only when one has lost all things, that one knows that one possesses it” — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“life having its elaborate masterpieces, just as poetry has, or sculpture, or painting.” — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“There are two tradgedies in life: one is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it.” — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“Out of the unreal shadows of the night comes back the real life that we had known” — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
I am always astonishing myself. It is the only thing that makes life worth living. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
The stage is not merely the meeting place of all the arts, but is also the return of art to life. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
He lives the poetry that he cannot write. The others write the poetry that they dare not realize — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
And if life be, as it surely is, a problem to me, I am no less a problem to life. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
The man who says he has exhausted life generally means that life has exhausted him. — 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
