The man who can dominate a London dinner-table can dominate the world. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“The world has cried out against us both, but it has always worshipped you.” — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
There is no country in the world where machinery is so lovely as in America. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
In this world there are only two tragedies. One is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
In the world there are only two tragedies. One is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it. — 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
After the first glass, you see things as you wish they were. After the second, you see things as they are not.… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Beauty has as many meanings as man has moods. Beauty is the symbol of symbols. Beauty reveals everything, because it expresses nothing.… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
How strange a thing this is! The Priest telleth me that the Soul is worth all the gold in the world, and… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Sympathy with joy intensifies the sum of sympathy in the world, sympathy with pain does not really diminish the amount of pain. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
A glass of absinthe is as poetical as anything in the world. What difference is there between a glass of absinthe and… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Set in this stormy Northern sea, Queen of these restless fields of tide, England! what shall men say of thee, Before whose… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
There is nothing in the world like the devotion of a married woman. It is a thing no married man knows anything… — 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
What is termed Sin is an essential element of progress. Without it the world would stagnate, or grow old, or become colorless.… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
The nineteenth century is a turning point in history, simply on account of the work of two men, Darwin and Renan, the… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
To be popular one must be a mediocrity." "Not with Women," said the duchess, shaking her head; "and women rule the world.… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Actual life was chaos, but there was something terribly logical in the imagination. It was the imagination that set remorse to dog… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
I must say to myself that I ruined myself, and that nobody great or small can be ruined except by his own… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
We become lovers when we see Romeo and Juliet, and Hamlet makes us students. The blood of Duncan is upon our hands,… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“Terrible as was what the world did to me, what I did to myself was far more terrible still.” — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Any map of the world that does not include Utopia is not even worth glancing at. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
In modern life nothing produces such an effect as a good platitude. It makes the whole world kin. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
I like talking to a brick wall- it's the only thing in the world that never contradicts me! — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
The world is changed because you are made of ivory and gold. The curves of your lips rewrite history. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“Not worthy! Why, the whole world is nothing to me compared with her.” — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
'The Lady's World' should be made the recognized organ for the expression of women's opinions on all subjects of literature, art and… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
What is termed Sin is an essential element of progress. Without it the world would stagnate, or grow old, or become colourless. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Thinking is the most unhealthy thing in the world, and people die of it just as they die of any other disease.… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
I like persons better than principles, and I like persons with no principles better than anything else in the world. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Many of the great achievements of the world were accomplished by tired and discouraged men who kept on working. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Beauty ...is of the great facts in the world like sunlight, or springtime, or the reflection in dark water of that silver… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
It's an odd thing, but anyone who disappears is said to be seen in San Francisco. It must be a delightful city… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Now it seems to me that love of some kind is the only possible explanation of the extraordinary amount of suffering that… — 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
