Dammit Sir, it's your duty to get married. You can't always be living for pleasure! — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
The youth of America is their oldest tradition. It has been going on now for three hundred years. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
A community is infinitely more brutalised by the habitual employment of punishment than it is by the occasional occurence of crime. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Too much work, and no vacation, Deserves at least a small libation. So hail! my friends, and raise your glasses, Work's the… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Religion is like a blind man looking in a black room for a black cat that isn't there, and finding it. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“I can stand brute force, but brute reason is quite unbearable. There is something unfair about it's use. It is hitting below… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“I don’t think that you should tell me that you love me wildly, passionately, devotedly, hopelessly. Hopelessly doesn’t seem to make much… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
There is more to be said for stupidity than people imagine. Personally I have a great admiration for stupidity. It is a… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
As one reads history ... one is absolutely sickened, not by the crimes that the wicked have committed, but by the punishments… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Women have a wonderful instinct about things. They can discover everything except the obvious. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Anyone who lives within their means suffers from a lack of imagination. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Musical people always want one to be perfectly dumb at the very moment when one is longing to be perfectly deaf. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Love will fly if held too lightly Love will die if held too tightly . . . — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Tell the cook of this restaurant with my compliments that these are the very worst sandwiches in the whole world, and that,… — 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
