I find that forgiving one's enemies is a most curious morbid pleasure; perhaps I should check it. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
It is a curious fact that people are never so trivial as when they take themselves seriously — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Men marry because they are tired; women, because they are curious; both are disappointed. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Wickedness is a myth invented by good people to account for the curious attractiveness of others. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
It is curious how vanity helps the successful man and wrecks the failure. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
He had that curious love of green, which in individuals is always the sign of a subtle artistic temperament, and in nations… — 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
When our eyes met, I felt that I was growing pale. A curious sensation of terror came over me. I knew that… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Human life--that appeared to him the one thing worth investigating. Compared to it there was nothing else of any value. It was… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
She was a curious woman, whose dresses always looked as if they had been designed in a rage and put on in… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Perhaps there may come into my art also, no less than into my life, a still deeper note, one of greater unity… — 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
