Wherever there is a man who exercises authority, there is a man who resists authority. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
To exercise power costs effort and demands courage. That is why so many fail to assert rights to which they are perfectly… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
All authority is quite degrading. It degrades those who exercise it, and it degrades those over whom it is exercised. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
All modes of government are failures. Despotism is unjust to everybody, including the despot, who was probably made for better things. Oligarchies… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Misery and poverty are so absolutely degrading, and exercise such a paralysing effect over the nature of men, that no class is… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
In England, an inventor is regarded almost as a crazy man, and in too many instances invention ends in disappointment and poverty.… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Each class preaches the importance of those virtues it need not exercise. The rich harp on the value of thrift, the idle… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
There was something terribly enthralling in the exercise of influence. No other activity was like it. To project one's soul into some… — 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
