I have a dining room done in different shades of white, with white cushions embroidered in yellow silk: the effect is absolutely… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Society takes upon itself the right to inflict appalling punishment on the individual, but it also has the supreme vice of shallowness,… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
The quivering, ardent sunlight showed him the lines of cruelty round the mouth as clearly as if he had been looking into… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
The crude commercialism of America, its materialising spirit, its indifference to the poetical side of things, and its lack of imagination and… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
The best work in literature is always done by those who do not depend on it for their daily bread and the… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Experience was of no ethical value. It was merely the name men gave to their mistakes. Moralists had, as a rule, regarded… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
I dislike modern memoirs. They are generally written by people who have either entirely lost their memories, or have never done anything… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
The body sins once, and has done with its sin, for action is a mode of purification. Nothing remains then but the… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
The mark of all good art is not that the thing done is done exactly or finely, for machinery may do as… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Art creates an incomparable and unique effect, and, having done so, passes on to other things. Nature, upon the other hand, forgetting… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
When I think of all the harm [the Bible] has done, I despair of ever writing anything to equal it. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
As a wicked man I am a complete failure. Why, there are lots of people who say I have never really done… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
I forgot that every little action of the common day makes or unmakes character, and that therefore what one has done in… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
For a year after that was done to me I wept every day at the same hour and for the same space… — 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
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