The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it. Resist it, and your soul grows sick with… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
I have always been of opinion that a man who desires to get married should know either everything or nothing. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
His sudden mad love for Sibyl Vane was a psychological phenomenon of no small interest. There was no doubt that curiosity had… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Sometime you will find, even as I have found, that there is no such thing as romantic experience; there are romantic memories,… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“I wish I could love," cried Dorian Gray with a deep note of pathos in his voice. "But I seem to have… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“I believe that if one man were to live out his life fully and completely, were to give form to every feeling,… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
A man whose desire is to be something separate from himself, to be a member of Parliament, or a successful grocer, or… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“Nay, without thought or conscious desire, might not things external to ourselves vibrate in unison with our moods and passions, atom calling… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“each time that one loves is the only time one has ever loved. difference of object does not alter singleness of passion.… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it. Resist it, and your soul grows sick with… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“I am athirst for thy beauty; I am hungry for thy body; and neither wine nor apples can appease my desire. What… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
There was no doubt that curiosity had much to do with it, curiosity and the desire for new experiences; yet it was… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
In this world there are only two tragedies. One is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
LADY BRACKNELL Algernon is an extremely, I may almost say an ostentatiously, eligible young man. He has nothing, but he looks everything.… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“But somehow, I feel sure that if I lived in the country for six months, I should become so unsophisticated that no… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
A sentimentalist is simply one who desires to have the luxury of an emotion without paying for it. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
We quaff the cup of life with eager haste without draining it, instead of which it only overflows the brim - objects… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“What the paradox was to me in the sphere of thought, perversity became to me in the sphere of passion. Desire, at… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Women, as some witty Frenchman once put it, inspire us with the desire to do masterpieces and always prevent us from carrying… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
I write because it gives me the greatest possible artistic pleasure to write. If my work pleases the few I am gratified.… — 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
Art never harms itself by keeping aloof from the social problems of the day: rather, by so doing, it more completely realises… — 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
