Death and vulgarity are the only two facts in the nineteenth century that one cannot explain away. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Whatever, in fact, is modern in our life we owe to the Greeks. Whatever is an anachronism is due to mediaevalism. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Genius lasts longer than Beauty. That accounts for the fact that we all take such pains to over-educate ourselves. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
The English are always degrading truths into facts. When a truth becomes a fact it loses all its intellectual value. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
There is only one real tragedy in a woman's life. The fact that her past is always her lover, and her future… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
The evil that machinery is doing is not merely in the consequence of its work but in the fact that it makes… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Christ did not die to save people, but to teach people how to save each other. This is, I have no doubt,… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
I can't help detesting my relations. I suppose it comes from the fact that none of us can stand other people having… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Beauty ...is of the great facts in the world like sunlight, or springtime, or the reflection in dark water of that silver… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
The ancient historians gave us delightful fiction in the form of fact; the modern novelist presents us with dull facts under the… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
I am but too conscious of the fact that we are born in an age when only the dull are treated seriously,… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
In the common world of fact the wicked were not punished, nor the good rewarded. Success was given to the strong, failure… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
In the wild struggle for existence, we want to have something that endures, and so we fill our minds with rubbish and… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
The Governor was strong upon The Regulation Act: The Doctor said that Death was but A scientific fact: And twice a day… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
The fact is, that civilization requires slaves. Unless there are slaves to do the ugly, horrible, uninteresting work, culture and contemplation become… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
In fact, now you mention the subject, I have been very bad in my own small way. I don't think you should… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
In fact, the whole of Japan is a pure invention. There is no such country, there are no such people.... The Japanese… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
The fact is, that civilization requires slaves. Human slavery is wrong, insecure, and demoralizing. On mechanical slavery, on the slavery of the… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
A work of art is the unique result of a unique temperament. Its beauty comes from the fact that the author is… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Lady Bracknell. Good afternoon, dear Algernon, I hope you are behaving very well. Algernon. I’m feeling very well, Aunt Augusta. Lady Bracknell.… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Newspapers. . . give us the bald, sordid, disgusting facts of life. They chronicle, with degrading avidity, the sins of the second-rate,… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
On the whole, the great success of marriage in the States is due partly to the fact that no American man is… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
The fact is, the public make use of the classics of a country as a means of checking the progress of Art.… — 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
The real weakness of England lies, not in incomplete armaments or unfortified coasts, not in the poverty that creeps through sunless lanes,… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
A work of art is the unique result of a unique temperament. Its beauty comes from the fact that the author is… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
I really don't see anything romantic in proposing. It is very romantic to be in love. But there is nothing romantic about… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Beauty is a form of Genius--is higher, indeed, than Genius, as it needs no explanation. It is one of the great facts… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
I am but too conscious of the fact that we are born in an age when only the dull are treated seriously,… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Actual life was chaos, but there was something terribly logical in the imagination. It was the imagination that set remorse to dog… — 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
She has form," he said to himself, as he walked away through the grove - "that cannot be denied to her; but… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
The only artists I have ever known who are personally delightful are bad artists. Good artists exist simply in what they make,… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
It is a sad thing to think of, but there is no doubt that genius lasts longer than beauty. That accounts for… — 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
