A subject that is beautiful in itself gives no suggestion to the artist. It lacks imperfection. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Don't give a woman advice; one should never give a woman anything she can't wear in the evening. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
If only the picture could grow old, and I stay young. For that...for that, I would give my SOUL for that. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
People are very fond of giving away what they need most themselves. It is what I call the depth of generosity. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
By giving us the opinions of the uneducated, journalism keeps us in touch with the ignorance of the community. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
If one doesn't talk about a thing, it has never happened. It is simply expression that gives reality to things. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
The aim of the liar is simply to charm, to delight, to give pleasure. He is the very basis of civilized society. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
One should never make one's entrance with a scandal. One should reserve that to give an interest to one's old age. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Give children beauty, not the record of bloody slaughters and barbarous brawls, as they call history, or of the latitude and longitude… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Ethics, like natural selection, make existence possible. Aesthetics, like sensual selection, make life lovely and wonderful, fill it with new forms, and… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
When a golden girl can win Prayer from out the lips of sin, When the barren almond bears, And a little child… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
I write because it gives me the greatest possible artistic pleasure to write. If my work pleases the few I am gratified.… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Newspapers. . . give us the bald, sordid, disgusting facts of life. They chronicle, with degrading avidity, the sins of the second-rate,… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Do you really keep a diary? I'd give anything to look at it. May I? Oh, no. You see, it is simply… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
It is chiefly, I regret to say, through journalism that such people find expression. I regret it because there is much to… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
What between the duties expected of one during one's lifetime, and the duties exacted from one after one's death, land has ceased… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
I am jealous of everything whose beauty does not die. I am jealous of the portrait you have painted of me. Why… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
There is much to be said in favor of modern journalism. By giving us the opinions of the uneducated, it keeps us… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Salomé, Salomé, dance for me. I pray thee dance for me. I am sad to-night. Yes, I am passing sad to-night. When… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
How sad it is!" murmured Dorian Gray with his eyes still fixed upon his own portrait. "How sad it is! I shall… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
There are moments, psychologists tell us, when the passion for sin, or what the world calls sin, so dominates a nature, that… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
In war," answered the weaver, "the strong make slaves of the weak, and in peace the rich make slaves of the poor.… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
To give and not expect return, that is what lies at the heart of love. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
It is a sad truth, but we have lost the faculty of giving lovely names to things. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Every effect that one produces gives one an enemy. To be popular one must be a mediocrity. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Life cheats us with shadows. We ask it for pleasure. It gives it to us with bitterness and disappointment in its train. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
The only thing that ever consoles man for the stupid things he does is the praise he always gives himself for doing… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Long engagements give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before marriage, which is never advisable. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
I hope to-morrow will be a fine day, Lane. It never is, sir. Lane, you're a perfect pessimist. I do my best… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
If one were to live his life fully and completely were to give form to every feeling, expression to every thought, reality… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
He is fairer than the morning star, and whiter than the moon. For his body I would give my soul, and for… — 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
