Each little thing that we do passes into the great machine of life which may grind our virtues to powder and make… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Ignorance is like a delicate exotic fruit; touch it and the bloom is gone. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
I do not approve of anything that tampers with natural ignorance. Ignorance is like a delicate exotic fruit; touch it and the… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
I have pleasures, and passions, but the joy of life is gone. I am going under: the morgue yawns for me. I… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
It was not intended as a compliment. It was a confession. Now that I have made it, something seems to have gone… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
My writing has gone to bits - like my character. I am simply a self-conscious nerve in pain. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
There is no good talking to him," said a Dragon-fly, who was sitting on the top of a large brown bulrush; "no… — 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
