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
We who live in prison, and in whose lives there is no event but sorrow, have to measure time by throbs of… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“each time that one loves is the only time one has ever loved. difference of object does not alter singleness of passion.… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
The only difference between the saint and the sinner is that every saint has a past, and every sinner has a future. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
He to whom the present is the only thing that is present, knows nothing of the age in which he lives. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“What was youth at best? A green, an unripe time, a time of shallow moods, and sickly thoughts.” — 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
There is only one real tragedy in a woman's life. The fact that her past is always her lover, and her future… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“It is always twilight in one’s cell, as it is always twilight in one’s heart. And in the sphere of thought, no… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
My life-my whole life- take it, and do with it what you will. I love you-love you as I have never loved… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“Yes, death. Death must be so beautiful. To lie in the soft brown earth, with the grasses waving above one's head, and… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“Each time that one loves is the only time one has ever loved. Difference of object does not alter singleness of passion.… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“The past could always be annihilated; regret, denial, or forgetfulness could do that. But the future was inevitable. There were passions in… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“Yet, after some time, he wearied of them, and would sit in his box at the opera, either alone or with Lord… — 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
“What does the actual lapse of time got to do with it? It is only shallow people who require years to get… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
The moment that an artist takes notice of what other people want, and tries to supply the demand, he ceases to be… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
I like Wagner's music better than anybody's. It is so loud that one can talk the whole time without other people hearing… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“For the future let those who come to play with me have no hearts,' she cried, and she ran out into the… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“It had brought melancholy across his passions. Its mere memory had marred many moments of joy. It had been like conscience to… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“The only difference between saints and sinners is that every saint has a past while every sinner has a future. ” — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
There were moments when he looked on evil simply as a mode through which he could realize his conception of the beautiful. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
It was you I thought of all the time, I gave to them the love you did not need: lavished on them… — 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
Thirty-five is a very attractive age. London society is full of women of the very highest birth who have, of their own… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
The fatal errors of life are not due to man's being unreasonable: an unreasonable moment may be one's finest moment. They are… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“It is always painful to part from people whom one has known for a very brief space of time. The absence of… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Beauty is the only thing that time cannot harm. Philosophies fall away like sand, and creeds follow one another like the withered… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“I have simply worshipped pianists - two at a time, sometimes, Harry tells me. I don't know what it is about them.… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Do not be afraid of the past. If people tell you that it is irrevocable, do not believe them. The past, the… — 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
“I wish i could write them down, these little coloured parables or poems that live for a moment in some cell of… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Every one of course represents the spirit of his age, but there is an eternal aspect of the Spirit of every age… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“A strange sense of loss came over him. He felt that Dorian Gray would never again be to him all that he… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
For a year after that was done to me I wept every day at the same hour and for the same space… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Just as the philanthropist is the nuisance of the ethical sphere, so the nuisance of the intellectual sphere is the man who… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
As one knows the poet by his fine music, so one can recognize the liar by his rich rhythmic utterance, and in… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“I turned halfway round, and saw Dorian Gray for the first time. When our eyes met, I felt that I was growing… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
There are moments when one has to choose between living one's own life, fully, entirely, completely-or dragging out some false, shallow, degrading… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Literature must rest always on a principle, and temporal considerations are no principle at all. For, to the poet, all times and… — 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
