“When poverty creeps in at the door, love flies in through the window.” — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
When one is in love, one always begins by deceiving oneself, and one always ends by deceiving others. That is what the… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
It is love, and not German philosophy, that is the true explanation of the world, whatever may be the explanation of the… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
While we look to the dramatist to give romance to realism, we ask of the actor to give realism to romance. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“very essence of romance is uncertainty. If ever I get married, I’ll certainly try to forget the fact.” — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
I love hearing my relations abused. It is the only thing that makes me put up with them at all. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“Some one has killed herself for love of you. I wish that I had ever had such an experience.” — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Prayer must never be answered: if it is, it ceases to be prayer and becomes correspondence. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“The only possible society is oneself. To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.” — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“And his Soul mocked him and said, "Surely thou hast but little joy out of thy love. Thou art as one who… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
When one is in love, one always begins by deceiving one's self, and one always ends by deceiving others. That is what… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
No better way is there to learn to love Nature than to understand Art. It dignifies every flower of the field. And,… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Medievalism, with its saints and martyrs, its love of self-torture, its wild passion for wounding itself, its gashing with knives, and its… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“each time that one loves is the only time one has ever loved. difference of object does not alter singleness of passion.… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“But surely it is something to have been The best beloved for a little while, To have walked hand in hand with… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“O crowned by God with thorns and pain! Mother of Christ! O mystic wife! my heart is weary of this life And… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
There is no such thing as romance in our day, women have become too brilliant; nothing spoils a romance so much as… — 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
Sometime you will find, even as I have found, that there is no such thing as romantic experience; there are romantic memories,… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“Are you very much in love with him?' he asked. She did not answer for some time, but stood gazing at the… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
I really don't see anything romantic in proposing. It is very romantic to be in love. But there is nothing romantic about… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“I am not a Pessimist. Indeed I am not sure that I quite know what Pessimism really means. All I do know… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“A fit of passionate sobbing choked her. She crouched on the floor like a wounded thing, and Dorian Gray, with his beautiful… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
I did not think I should be ever loved: do you indeed Love me so much as now you say you do?… — 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
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
