The moment you think you understand a great work of art, it's dead for you. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
I like to do all the talking myself. It saves time, and prevents arguments. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“The past could always be annihilated. Regret, denial, or forgetfulness could do that.” — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
I am always late on principle, my principle being that punctuality is the thief of time. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
People may fail many times, but they become failures only when they begin to blame someone else. Always forgive your enemies; nothing… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Everyone may not be good, but there's always something good in everyone. Never judge anyone shortly because every saint has a past… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
What seems to us as bitter trials are often blessings in disguise for which we are later, in the fullness of time… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“time, and on succeeding some months later to the title, had set himself to the serious study of the great aristocratic art… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
The moment one sits down to think, one becomes all nose, or all forehead, or something horrid — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“To-night, for the first time in my life, I saw through the hollowness, the sham, the silliness of the empty pageant in… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“He opened it. Inside was a green paste, waxy in lustre, the odour curiously heavy and persistent.” — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“But this murder--was it to dog him all his life? Was he always to be burdened by his past? Was he really” — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Youth! There is nothing like youth. The middle-aged are mortgaged to Life. The old are in Life's lumber-room. But youth is the… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Cecily. This is no time for wearing the shallow mask of manners. When I see a spade I call it a spade.… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“Are you very much in love with him?' he asked. She did not answer for some time, but stood gazing at the… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“When I am in trouble, eating is the only thing that consoles me. Indeed, when I am in really great trouble, as… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“The moment I met you I saw that you were quite unconscious of what you really are, of what you really might… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“he had been filled with terror lest other eyes should look upon it. It had brought melancholy across his passions. Its mere… — 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
What seems to us as bitter trials are often blessings in disguise [in the future. But only if we set out to… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
For us there is only one season, the season of sorrow. The very sun and moon seem taken from us. Outside, the… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“For you, at least, are young; ‘no hungry generations tread you down,’ and the past does not weary you with the intolerable… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Children begin by loving their parents; after a time they judge them; rarely, if ever, do they forgive them. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
In the old times men carried out their rights for themselves as they lived, but nowadays every baby seems born with a… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
I am not in favour of this modern mania for turning bad people into good people at a moment's notice. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
American girls are as clever at concealing their parents as English women are at concealing their past. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“valet had reminded him several times of the lateness of the hour, he got up, and going into the next room, placed… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
At every single moment of one's life one is what one is going to be no less than what one has been. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
If people are dishonest once, they will be dishonest a second time. And honest people should keep away from them. (Lady Chiltern) — 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. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
To stake all one's life on a single moment, to risk everything on one throw, whether the stake be power or pleasure,… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“One hardly knew at times whether one was reading the spiritual ecstasies of some mediaeval saint or the morbid confessions of a… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
My experience is that as soon as people are old enough to know better, they don't know anything at all. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Science can never grapple with the irrational. That is why it has no future before it, in this world. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Oh, why will parents always appear at the wrong time? Some extraordinary mistake in nature, I suppose. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
The past could always be annihilated. Regret, denial, or forgetfulness could do that. But the future was inevitable. — 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
![“Cecily. This is no time for wearing the shallow mask of manners. When I see a spade I call it a spade. Gwendolen. [Satirically.] I am glad to say that I have never seen a spade. It is obvious that our social spheres have been widely different.” quote by Oscar Wilde](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/1e7/oscar-wilde-16_different_cecily-this-is-no-time-for-wearing-the-s_1461245.jpg)
![“What seems to us as bitter trials are often blessings in disguise [in the future. But only if we set out to make this true and anticipate it so we look for the blessings until we find them].” quote by Oscar Wilde](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/8eb/oscar-wilde-16_anticipate_what-seems-to-us-as-bitter-trials-are-of_2312154.jpg)
