God grant me the serenity to accept that people are ignorant, the courage to uphold the law when I'm hostile, & the… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Young men want to be faithful, and are not. Old men want to be faithless, and cannot. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
It's either the wallpaper or me. One of us has to go. [These were his dying words.] — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
I always like to know everything about my new friends, and nothing about my old ones. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
When a man does exactly what a woman expects him to do she doesn't think much of him. One should always do… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
I like Wagner's music better than anybody's. It is so loud that one can talk the whole time without other people hearing… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
It is a sad truth, but we have lost the faculty of giving lovely names to things. Names are everything. I never… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Prayer must never be answered: if it is, it ceases to be prayer and becomes correspondence. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
To disagree with three-fourths of the British public is one of the first requisites of sanity. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“JACK You're quite perfect, Miss Fairfax. GWENDOLEN Oh! I hope I am not that. It would leave no room for developments, and… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Marriage is the triumph of imagination over intelligence. Second marriage is the triumph of hope over experience. — 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
