It is curious how vanity helps the successful man and wrecks the failure. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“Your vanity is ridiculous, your conduct an outrage, and your presence in my garden utterly absurd” — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
If only the picture could grow old, and I stay young. For that...for that, I would give my SOUL for that. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Men always want to be a woman's first love. That is their clumsy vanity. We women have a more subtle instinct about… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Nothing makes one so vain as being told one is a sinner. Conscience makes egotists of us all. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“Besides, nothing makes one so vain as being told that one is a sinner. Conscience makes egotists of us all.” — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Then I feel, Harry, that I have given away my whole soul to someone who treats it as if it were a… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Men always want to be a woman’s first love. That is their clumsy vanity. We women have a more subtle instinct about… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“I am less to you than your ivory Hermes or your silver Faun. You will like them always. How long will you… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
The public has always, and in every age, been badly brought up. They are continually asking Art to be popular, to please… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“Now and then, however, he is horribly thoughtless, and seems to take a real delight in giving me pain. Then I feel,… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Love does not traffic in a marketplace, nor use a huckster's scales. Its joy, like the joy of the intellect, is to… — 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
