There is no country in the world where machinery is so lovely as in America. It was not until I had seen… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Niagara Falls is simply a vast unnecessary amount of water going over the wrong way and then falling over unnecessary cliffs...The wonder… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
LORD ILLINGWORTH What do you think she'd do if I kissed her? MRS ALLONBY Either marry you, or strike you across the… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Beauty is the only thing that time cannot harm. Philosophies fall away like sand, and creeds follow one another like the withered… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Society, as we have constituted it, will have no place for me, has none to offer; but Nature, whose sweet rains fall… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Never regret thy fall, O Icarus of the fearless flight For the greatest tragedy of them all Is never to feel the… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Every American bride is taken there [Niagara Falls], and the sight of the stupendous waterfall must be one of the earliest, if… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Philosophies fall away like sand, and creeds follow on another like the withered leaves of Autumn. — 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