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 only thing that one really knows about human nature is that it changes. Change is the one quality we can predicate… — 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
Only the unimaginative can fail to find a reason for drinking Champagne — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
But we never get back our youth… The pulse of joy that beats in us at twenty becomes sluggish. Our limbs fail,… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
The systems that fail are those that rely on the permanency of human nature, and not its growth and development. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
People may fail many times, but they become failures only when they begin to blame someone else. Always forgive your enemies; nothing… — 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
