Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live; it is asking others to live as one wishes to live. And unselfishness… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
The secret to life is to enjoy the pleasure of being terribly, terribly deceived. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
It is only shallow people who require years to get rid of an emotion. A man who is master of himself can… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
I don't want to be at the mercy of my emotions. I want to use them, to enjoy them, and to dominate… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
It is perfectly possible to get what you think you want and be miserable. It's possible too, to never get it but… — 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
