“Yes Harry I believe that is true. I cannot help telling you things. You have a curious influence over me. If I… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“I know he likes me. Of course I flatter him dreadfully. I find a strange pleasure in saying things to him that… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“Marriage is hardly a thing that one can do now and then, Harry. Except in America, rejoined Lord Henry, languidly.” — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“Now and then, however, he is horribly thoughtless, and seems to take a real delight in giving me pain. Then I feel,… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“Harry spends his days in saying what is incredible, and his evenings in doing what is improbable. Just the sort of life… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
I didn't say I liked it Harry. I said it fascinated me. There is a great difference. — 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
Bachelors should be heavily taxed. It is not fair that some men should be happier than others — Oscar Wilde Copy Share
“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
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
“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
“Those who find beautiful meanings in beautiful things are the cultivated. For these there is hope.” — Oscar Wilde Copy Share
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
Why is it that at a bachelor's establishment the servants invariably drink the champagne. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share
Moderation is a fatal thing. Enough is as bad as a meal. More than enough is as good as a feast. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share
Beauty is the only thing that time cannot harm. Philosophies fall away like sand, creeds follow one another, but what is beautiful is a… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share
