The Americans are certainly hero-worshipers, and always take their heroes from the criminal classes. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
And, as for what is called improving conversation, that is merely the foolish method by which the still more foolish philanthropist feebly… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Work is the curse of the drinking class. I can resist everything except temptation. Moderation is a fatal thing - nothing succeeds… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Too much work, and no vacation, Deserves at least a small libation. So hail! my friends, and raise your glasses, Work's the… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
To be good, according to the vulgar standard of goodness, is obviously quite easy. It merely requires a certain amount of sordid… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
In England ... education produces no effect whatsoever. If it did, it would prove a serious danger to the upper classes, and… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
I do not approve of anything that tampers with natural ignorance. Ignorance is like a delicate exotic fruit; touch it and the… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
It is quite true that I have worshipped you with far more romance of feeling than a man usually gives to a… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Agitators are a set of interfering, meddling people, who come down to some perfectly contented class of the community and sow the… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
I am not laughing, Dorian; at least I am not laughing at you. But you should not say the greatest romance of… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
The criminal classes are so close to us that even the policemen can see them. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
There is only one class in the community that thinks more about money than the rich, and that is the poor. The… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Each class preaches the importance of those virtues it need not exercise. The rich harp on the value of thrift, the idle… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
The trouble with the lower classes is that they lack the sense of tragedy given to them by the upper classes. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Misery and poverty are so absolutely degrading, and exercise such a paralysing effect over the nature of men, that no class is… — 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
