To stake all one's life on a single moment, to risk everything on one throw, whether the stake be power or pleasure,… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Give children beauty, not the record of bloody slaughters and barbarous brawls, as they call history, or of the latitude and longitude… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Ah! that quite does for me. I haven't a word to say... Too much care was taken with our education, I am… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
The people who have adored me-- there have not been very many, but there have been some-- have always insisted on living… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Oh, I don’t care about Jack. I don’t care for anybody in the whole world but you. I love you, Cecily. You… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Oh, brothers! I don't care for brothers. My elder brother won't die, and my younger brothers seem never to do anything else. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
The more we study Art, the less we care for Nature. What Art really reveals to us is Nature's lack of design,… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
You can hardly imagine that I and Lord Bracknell would dream of allowing our only daughter - a girl brought up with… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
The sick do not ask if the hand that smoothes their pillow is pure, nor the dying care if the lips that… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
The only people I would care to be with now are artists and people who have suffered: those who know what beauty… — 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
