To give and not expect return, that is what lies at the heart of love. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
He must have a truly romantic nature, for he weeps when there is nothing at all to weep about. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
I prefer women with a past. They're always so damned amusing to talk to. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
If Nature had been comfortable, mankind would never have invented architecture... — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
When a love comes to an end, weaklings cry, efficient ones instantly find another love, and the wise already have one in… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Learned conversation is either the affectation of the ignorant or the profession of the mentally unemployed. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Life under a good government is rarely dramatic; life under a bad government is always so. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
What consoles one nowadays is not repentance but pleasure. Repentance is quite out of date. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
I think it is perfectly natural for any artist to admire intensely and love a young man. It is an incident in… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“I like the duchess very much, but I don't love her." "And the duchess loves you very much, but she likes you… — 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
He had that curious love of green, which in individuals is always the sign of a subtle artistic temperament, and in nations… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“There is always something ridiculous about the emotions of people whom one has ceased to love. Sibyl Vane seemed to him to… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
The proper basis for marriage is mutual misunderstanding. The happiness of a married man depends on the people he has not married.… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
There is one thing infinitely more pathetic than to have lost the woman one is in love with, and that is to… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
ï¶ Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead. The consciousness… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
What a fuss people make about fidelity!" exclaimed Lord Henry. "Why, even in love it is purely a question for physiology. It… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“And so it is in poetry also: all this love of curious French metres like the Ballade, the Villanelle, the Rondel; all… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“Phidias and the achievements of Greek art are foreshadowed in Homer: Dante prefigures for us the passion and colour and intensity of… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“Dorian, Dorian," she cried, "before I knew you, acting was the one reality of my life. It was only in the theatre… — 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
