Poor? What does that matter? When poverty creeps in at the door, love flies in through the window. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Don't imagine that your perfection lies in accumulating or possessing external things. Your affection is inside of you. — 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 General was essentially a man of peace, except in his domestic life. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“The loves and sorrows that are great are destroyed by their own plentitude.” — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
He made me see what Life is, and what Death signifies, and why Love is stronger than both. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“From your silken hair to your delicate feet you are perfection to me. Pleasure hides love from us, but pain reveals it… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“Everyone is worthy of love, except him who thinks that he is. Love is a sacrament that should be taken kneeling.” — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“M. Zola sits down to give us a picture of the Second Empire. Who cares for the Second Empire now? It is… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
His sudden mad love for Sibyl Vane was a psychological phenomenon of no small interest. There was no doubt that curiosity had… — 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
“It is quite true that I have worshipped you with far more romance of feeling than a man usually gives to a… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“For romantic young people like he is, the world always looks best at a distance; and a prison where one's allowed to… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
It is a sad truth, but we have lost the faculty of giving lovely names to things. Names are everything. I never… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
With subtle and finely-wrought temperaments it is always so. Their strong passions must either bruise or bend. They either slay the man,… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“They spoil every romance by trying to make it last for ever. It is a meaningless word, too. The only difference between… — Oscar wilde Copy Share Image
“Nobody is worthy to be loved. The fact that God loves man shows us that in the divine order of ideal things… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“The error all women commit. Why can’t you women love us, faults and all? Why do you place us on monstrous pedestals?… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Yet each man kills the thing he loves, By each let this be heard, Some do it with a bitter look, Some… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Romance should never begin with sentiment. It should begin with science and end with a settlement. Nothing spoils romance so much as… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“The Little Ship Have your forgotten the ship love I made as a childish toy, When you were a little girl love,… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
It is quite true that I have worshipped you with far more romance of feeling than a man usually gives to a… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“Unconsciously he defines for me the lines of a fresh new school, a school that is to have in it all the… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“Be happy, cried the Nightingale, be happy; you shall have your red rose. I will build it out of music by moonlight,… — 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
