I'll bet you anything you like that half an hour after they have met, they will be calling each other sister. Women… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
JACK That is nonsense. If I marry a charming girl like Gwendolen, and she is the only girl I ever saw in… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“It's absurd to have a hard and fast rule about what one should read and what one shouldn't. More than half of… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
What a silly thing love is!' said the student as he walked away. 'It is not half as useful as logic, for… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
It is a very poor consolation to be told that the man who has given one a bad dinner, or poor wine,… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Early in life she had discovered the important truth that nothing looks so like innocence as an indiscretion; and by a series… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
What a silly thing love is! It is not half as useful as logic, for it does not prove anything and it… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
More than half of modern culture depends upon what one shouldn't read. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
An optimist will tell you the glass is half-full; the pessimist, half-empty; and the engineer will tell you the glass is twice… — 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
To shut one's eyes to half of life that one may live securely is as though one blinded oneself that one might… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
I'm sure I don't know half the people who come to my house. Indeed, from all I hear, I shouldn't like to. — 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
