The world is divided into two classes, those who believe the incredible, and those who do the improbable. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Art is the most intense mode of individualism that the world has known. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Missionaries are going to reform the world whether it wants to or not. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Society exists only as a mental concept; in the real world there are only individuals. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Men are such cowards. They outrage every law in the world and are afraid of the world's tongue. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
To do nothing at all is the most difficult thing in the world, the most difficult and the most intellectual. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
The burden of this world is too great for one man to bear, and the world’s sorrow too heavy for one heart… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
It is love, and not German philosophy, that is the true explanation of the world, whatever may be the explanation of the… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“There never has been an artistic age, or an artistic people, since the beginning of the world. The artist has always been,… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
My desire to live is as intense as ever, and though my heart is broken, hearts are made to be broken: that… — 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
Do you know that I am afraid that good people do a great deal of harm in this world? Certainly the greatest… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
In the common world of fact the wicked were not punished, nor the good rewarded. Success was given to the strong, failure… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Any place you love is the world to you”, explained the pensive Catherine Wheel, who had been attached to an old deal… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
It is in the brain, and the brain only, that the great sins of the world take place also. You, Mr. Gray,… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
I wanted to eat of the fruit of all the trees in the garden of the world… And so, indeed, I went… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
A map of the world that does not include Utopia is not worth even glancing at, for it leaves out the one… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
People say sometimes that Beauty is superficial. That may be so. But at least it is not so superficial as Thought is.… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
There is no country in the world where machinery is so lovely as in America. It was not until I had seen… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
I never approve, or disapprove, of anything now. It is an absurd attitude to take towards life. We are not sent into… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Actors are so fortunate. They can choose whether they will appear in tragedy or in comedy, whether they will suffer or make… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Prosperity, pleasure and success, may be rough of grain and common in fibre, but sorrow is the most sensitive of all created… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Behind joy and laughter there may be a temperament, coarse, hard and callous. But behind sorrow there is always sorrow. Pain, unlike… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
The world has grown suspicious of anything that looks like a happy married life. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
The only thing in the world worse than being Oscar Wilde is not being Oscar Wilde. — 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 Image
The world has grown suspicious of anything that looks like a happily married life. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
If there was less sympathy in the world, there would be less trouble in the world. — 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
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
