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 have learned this: it is not what one does that is wrong, but what one becomes as a consequence of it. — 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
There is nothing that stirs in the whole world of thought to which sorrow does not vibrate in terrible and exquisite pulsation. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
As for omens, there is no such thing as an omen. Destiny does not send us heralds. She is too wise or… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
He is really not so ugly after all, provided, of course, that one shuts one's eyes, and does not look at him. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
A man who moralizes is a hypocrite, and a woman who does so is invariably plain. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
And once, or twice, to throw the dice is a gentlemanly game, But he does not win who plays with Sin in… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
You can't possibly ask me to go without having some dinner. It's absurd. I never go without my dinner. No one ever… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
I don’t regret for a single moment having lived for pleasure. I did it to the full, as one should do everything… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
I am a born antinomian. I am one of those who are made for exceptions, not for laws. But while I see… — 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
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
When a man does exactly what a woman expects him to do she doesn't think much of him. One should always do… — 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
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
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
But what is the good of friendship if one cannot say exactly what one means? Anybody can say charming things and try… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Romance lives by repetition, and repetition converts an appetite into an art. Besides, each time that one loves is the only time… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
There is no such thing as a good influence. Because to influence a person is to give him one's own soul. He… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
What a silly thing love is!' said the student as he walked away. 'It is not half as useful as logic, for… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
God knows; I won't be an Oxford don anyhow. I'll be a poet, a writer, a dramatist. Somehow or other I'll be… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
I am jealous of everything whose beauty does not die. I am jealous of the portrait you have painted of me. Why… — 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
Poor? What does that matter? When poverty creeps in at the door, love flies in through the window. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
I hope your hair curls naturally, does it?" "Yes, darling, with a little help from others. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
The great poet is always a seer, seeing less with the eyes of the body than he does with the eyes of… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
The truth about the life of a man is not what he does, but the legend which he creates around himself. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
I hope you hair curls naturally, does it? Yes, darling, with a little help from others. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Sympathy with joy intensifies the sum of sympathy in the world, sympathy with pain does not really diminish the amount of pain. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
The only thing that ever consoles man for the stupid things he does is the praise he always gives himself for doing… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
I am very glad I have travelled. Travel improves the mind wonderfully, and does away with all one's prejudices. — 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
