“I turned halfway round, and saw Dorian Gray for the first time. When our eyes met, I felt that I was growing… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“Jack: [Slowly and hesitatingly] “Gwendolen–Cecily–it is very painful for me to be forced to speak the truth. It is the first time… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“To-night, for the first time in my life, I saw through the hollowness, the sham, the silliness of the empty pageant in… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“Dorian, Dorian," she cried, "before I knew you, acting was the one reality of my life. It was only in the theatre… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“He is all my art to me now," said the painter gravely. "I sometimes think, Harry, that there are only two eras… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
I've now realised for the first time in my life the vital Importance of Being Earnest. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“Of course to one so modern as I am, `Enfant de mon siècle,’ merely to look at the world will be always… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“I suddenly became conscious that some one was looking at me. I turned half-way round and saw Dorian Gray for the first… — 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
![“Jack: [Slowly and hesitatingly] “Gwendolen–Cecily–it is very painful for me to be forced to speak the truth. It is the first time in my life that I have ever been reduced to such a painful position, and I am really quite inexperienced in doing anything of the kind.” quote by Oscar Wilde](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/1d5/oscar-wilde-16_first-time_jack-slowly-and-hesitatingly-gwendolen-c_910632.jpg)
