“people who only love once in their lives are really shallow people. What they call their loyalty, and their fidelity, I call… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Murder is always a mistake. One should never do anything that one cannot talk about after dinner. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“I can not help feeling that it is a mistake to think that the passion one feels in creation is ever really… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“Never mind what I say. I am always saying what I shouldn't say. In fact, I usually say what I really think.… — 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
Good taste is the excuse I've always given for leading such a bad life — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“The ugly and the stupid have the best of it in this world. They can sit quietly and gape at the play.… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Ah! realize your youth while you have it. Don’t squander the gold of your days, listening to the tedious, trying to improve… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“Don't squander the gold of your days, listening to the tedious, trying to improve the hopeless failure, or giving away your life… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“The ugly and the stupid have the best of it in this world. They can sit at their ease and gape at… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
The beautiful, passionate, ruined South, the land of magnolias and music, of roses and romance . . . living on the memory of crushing defeats — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“We Irish are too poetical to be poets; we are a nation of brilliant failures, but we are the greatest talkers since… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
It is curious how vanity helps the successful man and wrecks the failure. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“The people who love only once in their lives are really the shallow people. (...) Faithfulness is to the emotional life what… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“Frank Harris has no feelings. It is the secret of his success. Just as the fact that he thinks that other people… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“Do you want to kill his love for you? What sort of existence will he have if you rob him of the… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“If they know nothing of victory, they are at least spared the knowledge of defeat. They live as we all should live—undisturbed,… — 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
Don't squander the gold of your days, listening to the tedious, trying to improve the hopeless failure, or giving away your life… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
My great mistake, the fault for which I can’t forgive myself, is that one day I ceased my obstinate pursuit of my… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Even now I cannot help feeling that it is a mistake to think that the passion one feels in creation is ever… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Murder is always a mistake - one should never do anything one cannot talk about after dinner — 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
The ugly and stupid have the best of it in this world. They can sit at their ease and gape at the… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“The people who love only once in their lives are really the shallow people. What they call their loyalty, and their fidelity,… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“I give the truths of tomorrow." "I prefer the mistakes of today," she answered.” — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“My dear boy, the people who only love once in their lives are really the shallow people. What they call their loyalty,… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
I usually say what I really think. A great mistake nowadays. It makes one so liable to be misunderstood. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“The systems that fail are those that rely on the permanency of human nature” — 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
“Even now I cannot help feeling that it is a mistake to think that the passion one feels in creation is ever… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
If they know nothing of victory, they are at least spared the knowledge of defeat. — 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
It is a great mistake for men to give up paying compliments, for when they give up saying what is charming, they… — 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
