I have always been of opinion that a man who desires to get married should know either everything or nothing. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
It is perfectly monstrous the way people go about nowadays saying things against one, behind one's back, that are absolutely and entirely… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
One should never make one's debut in a scandal. One should reserve that to give interest to one's old age. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
To lose one parent may be regarded as a misfortune; to lose both looks like carelessness. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Love is like a booger. You keep picking at it until you get it, then wonder what to do with it. — 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
35 is a very attractive age. London society is full of women of the very highest birth who have, of their own… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
He is really not so ugly after all, provided, of course, that one shuts one's eyes, and does not look at him. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
If I am occasionally a little over-dressed, I make up for it by being always immensely over-educated. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Whenever cannibals are on the brink of starvation, Heaven, in its infinite mercy, sends them a fat missionary. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Love is like a war; easy to start but hard to end and you never know where it might take you. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
The typewriting machine, when played with expression, is no more annoying than the piano when played by a sister or near relation. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
I have always been of the opinion that hard work is simply the refuge of people who have nothing whatever to do. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Really, if the lower orders don't set a good example, what on earth is the use of them? — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
I never play cricket. It requires one to assume such indecent postures. — 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
