The secret to life is to enjoy the pleasure of being terribly, terribly deceived. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
No man should have a secret from his wife. She invariably finds it out. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
She behaves as if she was beautiful. Most American women do. It is the secret of their charm. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
All charming people, I fancy, are spoiled. It is the secret of their attraction. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
The secret of remaining young is never to have an emotion that is unbecoming. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
The secret of life is to appreciate the pleasure of being terribly deceived — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
She had a passion for secrecy, but she herself was merely a Sphinx without a secret. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“The secret seems to be the only way to become mysterious and wonderful modern life. The commonest thing gets a touch fascinating… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
And once, or twice, to throw the dice is a gentlemanly game, But he does not win who plays with Sin in… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
I forgot that every little action of the common day makes or unmakes character, and that therefore what one has done in… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Ah, on what little things does happiness depend! I have read all that the wise men have written, and all the secrets… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“To cure the soul by means of the senses, and the senses by means of the soul." Yes, that was the secret.” — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
You are young. No hungry generations tread you down. The past does not mock you with the ruins of a beauty the… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
The reason we are so pleased to find other people's secrets is that it distracts public attention from our own. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
The terror of society, which is the basis of morals, the terror of God, which is the secret of religion-these are the… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
I have been right, Basil, haven’t I, to take my love out of poetry, and to find my wife in Shakespeare’s plays?… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Sin is a thing that writes itself across a man's face. It cannot be concealed. People talk sometimes of secret vices, there… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
But whether I become a believer or remain an agnostic, my belief or disbelief must derive its source from within, not from… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Romance lives by repetition, and repetition converts an appetite into an art. Besides, each time that one loves is the only time… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“but more often he would be alone, feeling through a certain quick instinct, which was almost a divination, that the secrets of… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Aestheticism is a search after the signs of the beautiful. It is the science of the beautiful through which men seek the… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Life! Life! Don't let us go to life for our fulfilment or our experience. Life makes us pay too high a price… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Ordinary people waited till life disclosed to them its secrets, but to the few, to the elect, the mysteries of life were… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
An entirely new factor has appeared in the social development of the country, and this factor is the Irish-American, and his influence.… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Society, as we have constituted it, will have no place for me, has none to offer; but Nature, whose sweet rains fall… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
I feel that if I kept it secret it might grow in my mind (as poisonous things grow in the dark) and… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
We spend our days, each one of us, in looking for the secret of life. Well, the secret of life is in… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“I wish you would tell me your secret. To get back my youth I would do anything in the world, except take… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“But the picture? What was he to say of that? It held the secret of his life, and told his story. It… — 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
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