Fashion: by which what is really fantastic becomes for a moment the universal. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
There is no man who is not, at each moment, what he has been and what he will be. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Life, Lady Stutfield, is simply a mauvais quart d'heure made up of exquisite moments. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“One of the greatest tragedies of my life is the death of Lucien de Rubempré… It haunts me in my moments of… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
The only link between Literature and the Drama left to us in England at the present moment is the bill of the… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Yes, very sensible... People die of common sense, Dorian, one lost moment at a time. Life is a moment. There is no… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“One can realise a thing in a single moment, but one loses it in the long hours that follow with leaden feet. ” — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“I feel I must come with you. And will you talk to me all the time? No one talks so wonderfully as… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“But it was to teach man to concentrate himself upon the moments of a life that is itself but a moment.” — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Do not be afraid of the past. If people tell you that it is irrevocable, do not believe them. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“The next day he did not leave the house, and, indeed, spent most of the time in his own room, sick with… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
I envy you going to Oxford: it is the most flower-like time of one's life. One sees the shadow of things in… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“There was evidently no time to be lost, so, hastily adopting the Fourth dimension of Space as a means of escape, he… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“There are works which wait, and which one does not understand for a long time; the reason is that they bring answers… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Suffering is one very long moment. We cannot divide it by seasons. We can only record its moods, and chronicle their return.… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Yes; poor Bunbury is a dreadful invalid. Well, I must say, Algernon, that I think it is high time that Mr. Bunbury… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Death must be so beautiful. To lie in the soft brown earth, with the grasses waving above one's head, and listen to… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“you met me, flattered me, and taught me to be vain of my good looks. One day you introduced me to a… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“Lord Henry looked serious for some moments, 'It is perfectly monstrous,' he said at last, 'the way people go about nowadays saying… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“How English you are, Basil! That is the second time you have made that observation. If one puts forward an idea to… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“The very violence of a revolution may make the public grand and splendid for a moment. It was a fatal day when… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
I am jealous of everything whose beauty does not die. I am jealous of the portrait you have painted of me. Why… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“What is done is done. What is past is past." "You call yesterday the past?" "What has the actual lapse of time… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“Well, I must say, Algernon, that I think it is high time that Mr. Bunbury made up his mind whether he was… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“If they know nothing of death, it is because they know little of life, for the secrets of life and death belong… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“The one charm about the past is that it is the past. But women never know when the curtain has fallen. They… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“Art never expresses anything but itself. It has an independent life, just as thought has, and develops purely on its own lines… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
When one pays a visit it is for the purpose of wasting other people's time, not one's own. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
I've now realised for the first time in my life the vital Importance of Being Earnest. — 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
He was always late on principle, his principle being that punctuality is the thief of time. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
There are moments when art attains almost to the dignity of manual labor. — 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
