Lo! with a little rod I did but touch the honey of romance — And must I lose a soul's inheritance? — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Men always want to be a woman's first love. Women have a more subtle instinct: What they like is to be a… — 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
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
Twenty years of romance makes a woman look like a ruin; but twenty years of marriage makes her something like a public… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
The things one feels absolutely certain about are never true. That is the fatality of faith, and the lesson of romance. — 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
“What you have told me is quite a romance, a romance of art one might call it, and the worst of having… — 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
“Unless one is wealthy there is no use in being a charming fellow. Romance is the priviledge of the rich, not the… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Always! That is a dreadful word. It makes me shudder when I hear it. Women are so fond of using it. They… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“I am not laughing Dorian; at least I am not laughing at you. But you should not say the greatest romance of… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“but love is not fashionable anymore, the poets have killed it. They wrote so much about it that nobody believed them, and… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Men always want to be a woman's first love. That is their clumsy vanity. We woman have a more subtle instinct about… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Romance should never begin with sentiment. It should begin with science and end with a settlement. — 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
