“MRS. ALLONBY. It is only fair to tell you beforehand he has got no conversation at all. LADY STUTFIELD. I adore silent… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Ultimately the bond of all companionship, whether in marriage or in friendship, is conversation. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
One should never listen. To listen is a sign of indifference to one's hearers. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
The American father is never seen in London. He passes his life entirely in Wall Street and communicates with his family once… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Every single work of art is the fulfillment of a prophecy; for every work of art is the conversion of an idea… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Ultimately the bond of all companionship, whether in marriage or in friendship, is conversation, and conversation must have a common basis, and… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
I am afraid that you have been listening to the conversation of someone older than yourself. That is always a dangerous thing… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Its a beautiful woman's fate to be the subject of conversation where ever she goes — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“If one hears bad music, it is one's duty to drown it in conversation.” — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“Poor old Lord Mortlake, who had only two topics of conversation, his gout and his wife! I never could quite make out… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“My doctor says I must not have any serious conversation after seven [o'clock]. It makes me talk in my sleep.” — 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
“I am getting rather astonishing in my Italian conversation. I believe I talk a mixture of Dante and the worst modern slang.” — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Conversation about the weather is the last refuge of the unimaginative. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
When both a speaker and an audience are confused, the speech is profound. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“I could deny myself the pleasure of talking, but not to others the pleasure of listening.” — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“I never talk during music, at least during good music. If one hears bad music, it is one’s duty to drown it… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
If one hears bad music, it is one's duty to drown it by one's conversation. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
The liar at any rate recognizes that recreation, not instruction, is the aim of conversation, and is a far more civilized being… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“I like hearing myself talk. It is one of my greatest pleasures. I often have long conversations all by myself, and I… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Conversation should touch everything, but should concentrate itself on nothing. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“The bond of all companionship, whether in marriage or in friendship, is conversation” — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
I like hearing myself talk. It is one of my greatest pleasures. I often have long conversations all by myself. Sometimes I… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
There is no good talking to him," said a Dragon-fly, who was sitting on the top of a large brown bulrush; "no… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Learned conversation is either the affectation of the ignorant or the profession of the mentally unemployed. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“LADY BRACKNELL: It is my last reception, and one wants something that will encourage conversation, particularly at the end of the season… — 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