There are three kinds of despots. There is the despot who tyrannizes over the body. There is the despot who tyrannizes over… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
The history of women is the history of the worst form of tyranny the world has ever known. The tyranny of the… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
What art seeks to disturb is monotony of type, slavery of custom, tyranny of habit, and the reduction of man to the… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Despotism is unjust to everybody, including the despot, who was probably made for better things. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
The worst form of tyranny the world has ever known the tyranny of the weak over the strong. It is the only… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
A beautiful woman risking everything for a mad passion. A few wild weeks of happiness cut short by a hideous, treacherous crime.… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Art is individualism, and individualism is a disturbing and disintegrating force. There lies its immense value. For what it seeks is to… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
If the Socialism is Authoritarian; if there are Governments armed with economic power as they are now with political power; if, in… — 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
