“Of course married life is merely a habit, a bad habit. But then one regrets the loss even of one's worse habits.” — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
What art seeks to disturb is monotony of type, slavery of custom, tyranny of habit, and the reduction of man to the… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
The public have an insatiable curiosity to know everything. Except what is worth knowing. Journalism, conscious of this, and having tradesman-like habits,… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
As a rule, I think they are quite impossible. Geniuses talk so much, don't they? Such a bad habit! And they are… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“Of course, married life is merely a habit, a bad habit. But then one regrets the loss even of one's worst habits.… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“When I leave town now I never tell my people where I am going. If I did, I would lose all my… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
I am afraid that you have been listening to the conversation of someone older than yourself. That is always a dangerous thing… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“The post on her left was occupied by Mr. Erskine of Treadley, an old gentleman of considerable charm and culture, who had… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Art is individualism, and individualism is a disturbing and disintegrating force. There lies its immense value. For what it seeks is to… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“Out of the unreal shadows of the night comes back the real life that we had known. We have to resume it… — 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
