Now it seems to me that love of some kind is the only possible explanation of the extraordinary amount of suffering that… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
I love to talk about nothing. It's the only thing I know anything about. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
As for begging, it is safer to beg than to take, but it is finer to take than to beg — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
There is only one real tragedy in a woman's life. The fact that her past is always her lover, and her future… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
The good we get from art is not what we learn from it; it is what we become through it. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Perhaps one never seems so much at ones ease as when one has to play a part. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“We women, as some one says, love with our ears, just as you men love with your eyes, if you ever love… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“Love - well, not love at first sight, but love at the end of the season, which is so much more satisfactory.” — 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
All sins, except a sin against itself, Love should forgive. All lives, save loveless lives, true Love should pardon. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
The consciousness of loving and being loved brings a warmth and richness to life that nothing else can bring. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“It takes great courage to see the world in all its tainted glory, and still to love it. And even more courage… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
It was you I thought of all the time, I gave to them the love you did not need: lavished on them… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
A man cannot reason with the woman he loves: he cares about her too much. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Anyone can sympathize with the sufferings of a friend, but it requires a very fine nature to sympathize with a friend's success. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
I am sick of women who love one. Women who hate one are much more interesting. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
sorrow...is a wound that bleeds when any hand but that of love touches it — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
I love talking about nothing. It is the only thing I know anything about. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“They say that love hath a bitter taste… But what matter? What matter? I have kissed thy mouth.” — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Men always want to be a woman's first love. That is their clumsy vanity. We women have a more subtle instinct about… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
I see when men love women. They give them but a little of their lives. But women when they love give everything. — 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
