There are few of us who have not sometimes wakened before dawn, either after one of those dreamless nights that make one… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“Silently we went round and round, And through each hollow mind The memory of dreadful things Rushed like a dreadful wind, And… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
It is well for his peace that the saint goes to his martyrdom. He is spared the sight of the horror of… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Just as the worst slave-owners were those who were kind to their slaves, and so prevented the horror of the system being… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
There were opium-dens, where one could buy oblivion, dens of horror where the memory of old sins could be destroyed by the… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
For life is terribly deficient in form. Its catastrophes happen in the wrong way and to the wrong people. There is a… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“The brain had its own food on which it battened, and the imagination, made grotesque by terror, twisted and distorted as a… — 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
