Each of the professions means a prejudice. The necessity for a career forces every one to take sides. We live in the… — 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
We live in an age that reads too much to be wise, and that thinks too much to be beautiful. — 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
We call ours a utilitarian age, and we do not know the uses of any single thing. We have forgotten that water… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“But youth smiles without any reason. It is one of its chiefest charms.” — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
In war," answered the weaver, "the strong make slaves of the weak, and in peace the rich make slaves of the poor.… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
I am but too conscious of the fact that we are born in an age when only the dull are treated seriously,… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
The spirit of an age may be best expressed in the abstract ideal arts, for the spirit itself is abstract and ideal. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
The tragedy of growing old is not that one is old but that one is young. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
The proper basis for marriage is mutual misunderstanding. The happiness of a married man depends on the people he has not married.… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
A bishop keeps on saying at the age of eighty what he was told to say at the age of eighteen. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
It is absurd to say that the age of miracles is past. It has not yet begun. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
When I had to fill in my immigration papers, I gave my age as 19, and my profession as genius; I added… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
I delight in men over seventy. They always offer one the devotion of a lifetime. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
There was something terribly enthralling in the exercise of influence. No other activity was like it. To project one's soul into some… — 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
Bachelors should be heavily taxed. It is not fair that some men should be happier than others — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“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 Image
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 Image
“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 Image
“Those who find beautiful meanings in beautiful things are the cultivated. For these there is hope.” — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
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 Image
