Poets know how useful passion is for publication. Nowadays a broken heart will run to many editions. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
It is he who has broken the bond of marriage - not I. I only break its bondage. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
The most terrible thing about it is not that it breaks one’s heart—hearts are made to be broken—but that it turns one’s… — 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
And alien tears will fill for him pity's long broken urn. For his mourners will all be outcast men, and outcasts always… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Ah! happy day they whose hearts can break And peace of pardon win! How else may man make straight his plan And… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Loveless marriages are horrible. But there is one thing worse than an absolutely loveless marriage. A marriage in which there is love,… — 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
My sweet rose, my delicate flower, my lily of lilies, it is perhaps in prison that I am going to test the… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Poets are not so scrupulous as you are. They know how useful passion is for publication. Nowadays a broken heart will run… — 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
