A map of the world that does not include Utopia is not worth even glancing at, for it leaves out the one… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
I love scrapes. They are the only things that are never serious." "Oh, that's nonsense, Algy. You never talk anything but nonsense."… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
What a silly thing love is! It is not half as useful as logic, for it does not prove anything and it… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
I envy you going to Oxford: it is the most flower-like time of one's life. One sees the shadow of things in… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Suffering is one very long moment. We cannot divide it by seasons. We can only record its moods, and chronicle their return.… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“There are works which wait, and which one does not understand for a long time; the reason is that they bring answers… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
They are always asking a writer why he does not write like somebody else, or a painter why he does not paint… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
A method of procuring sensations? Do you think then, that a man who has once committed a murder could possibly do the… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Things are because we see them, and what we see, and how we see it, depends on the Arts that influenced us.… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
A map of the world that does not include Utopia is not worth even glancing at, for it leaves out the one… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
The world has become sad because a puppet was once melancholy. The nihilist, that strange martyr who has no faith, who goes… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Jack? . . . No, there is very little music in the name Jack, if any at all, indeed. It does not… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Prosperity, pleasure and success, may be rough of grain and common in fibre, but sorrow is the most sensitive of all created… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Love does not traffic in a marketplace, nor use a huckster's scales. Its joy, like the joy of the intellect, is to… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Yet each man kills the thing he loves, By each let this be heard, Some do it with a bitter look, Some… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Indeed, so far from being humorous, the male American is the most abnormally serious creature who ever existed.. It is only fair… — 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
