The youth of America is their oldest tradition. It has been going on now for three hundred years. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Ah! that quite does for me. I haven't a word to say... Too much care was taken with our education, I am… — 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
Lawyers have been known to wrest from reluctant juries triumphant verdicts of acquittal for their clients, even when those clients, as often… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
All modes of government are failures. Despotism is unjust to everybody, including the despot, who was probably made for better things. Oligarchies… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Really, this horrid House of Commons quite ruins our husbands for us. I think the Lower House by far the greatest blow… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
There is no man who is not, at each moment, what he has been and what he will be. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
At every single moment of one's life one is what one is going to be no less than what one has been. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
In art, the public accept what has been, because they cannot alter it, not because they appreciate it. They swallow their classics… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Good intentions have been the ruin of the world. The only people who have achieved anything have been those who have had… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
The public has always, and in every age, been badly brought up. They are continually asking Art to be popular, to please… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
An entirely new factor has appeared in the social development of the country, and this factor is the Irish-American, and his influence.… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
We have been able to have fine poetry in England because the public do not read it, and consequently do not influence… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Fashion rests upon folly. Art rests upon law. Fashion is ephemeral. Art is eternal. Indeed what is a fashion really? A fashion… — 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
