Nowadays, all the married men live like bachelors, and all the bachelors like married men. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
To have become a deeper man is the privilege of those who have suffered. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Women have a much better time than men in this world; there are far more things forbidden to them. — 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
And alien tears will fill for him pity's long broken urn. For his mourners will all be outcast men, and outcasts always… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Then there was a man who said, 'I never knew what real happiness was until I got married; by then it was… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
The happiness of a married man depends on the people he has not married. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Married men are horribly tedious when they are good husbands, and abominably conceited when they are not. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Ah! happy day they whose hearts can break And peace of pardon win! How else may man make straight his plan And… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Oscar Wilde was suing the Marquis of Queensbury in 1895 for libel accusing Wilde of homosexuality Counsel: Have you ever adored a… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
I don't like compliments, and I don't see why a man should think he is pleasing a woman enormously when he says… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
One's days were too brief to take the burden of another's errors on one's shoulders. Each man lived his own life and… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Misery and poverty are so absolutely degrading, and exercise such a paralysing effect over the nature of men, that no class is… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
A man's very highest moment is, I have no doubt at all, when he kneels in the dust, and beats his breast,… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
There is something tragic about the enormous number of young men there are in England at the present moment who start life… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Oh, how I vainly wished to the bearded man in the sky that I was Neapolitan. Why? So I could bring in… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Actors are so fortunate. They can choose whether they will appear in tragedy or in comedy, whether they will suffer or make… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Love does not traffic in a marketplace, nor use a huckster's scales. Its joy, like the joy of the intellect, is to… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
The nineteenth century is a turning point in history, simply on account of the work of two men, Darwin and Renan, the… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
To be popular one must be a mediocrity." "Not with Women," said the duchess, shaking her head; "and women rule the world.… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Jack? . . . No, there is very little music in the name Jack, if any at all, indeed. It does not… — 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
There should be a law that no ordinary newspaper should be allowed to write about art. The harm they do by their… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Pleasure is Nature's test, her sign of approval. When man is happy, he is in harmony with himself and his environment. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
When one has never heard a man's name in the course of one's life, it speaks volumes for him; he must be… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
When a man is old enough to do wrong he should be old enough to do right also. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Religion is like a blind man looking in a black room for a black cat that isn't there, and finding it. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Wherever there is a man who exercises authority, there is a man who resists authority. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
If you cannot prove a man wrong, don't panic. You can always call him names. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Many of the great achievements of the world were accomplished by tired and discouraged men who kept on working. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
A man who marries without knowing Bunbury has a very tedious time of it. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
A man who takes himself too seriously will find that no one else takes him seriously. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
There is no such thing as a heterosexual male, only men who haven't met Oscar Wilde yet. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
While to the claims of charity a man may yield and yet be free, to the claims of conformity no man may… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
A woman's life revolves in curves of emotions. It is upon lines of intellect that a man's life progresses. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Men marry because they are tired; women, because they are curious; both are disappointed. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
By the artificial separation of soul and body men have invented a Realism that is vulgar and an Idealism that is void. — 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
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
Who is that man over there? I don't know him. What is he doing? Is he a conspirator? Have you searched 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
