“The doctors found out that Bunbury could not live, that is what I mean - so Bunbury died. He seems to have… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Imagination is a quality that was given to man compensate him from whats not. The sense of humor was given to console… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Murder is always a mistake. One should never do anything that one cannot talk about after dinner. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“Women have no appreciation of good looks—at least, good women have not.” — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“There is only one thing in the world worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about.” — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“I must confess that most modern mysticism seems to me to be simply a method of imparting useless knowledge in a form… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“LADY BRACKNELL I had some crumpets with Lady Harbury, who seems to me to be living entirely for pleasure now. ALGERNON I… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
I have always been of the opinion that hard work is simply the refuge of people who have nothing whatever to do. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Humanity takes itself too seriously. It is the world's original sin. If the cave-man had known how to laugh, History would have… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“I never intend to grow old. The soul is born old but grows young. That is the comedy of life.” — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
It is awfully hard work doing nothing. However, I don't mind hard work where there is no definite object of any kind.… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“The English novels are the only relaxation of the intellectually unemployed. But one should not be too severe on them. They show… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“Cecil Graham: What is a cynic? Lord Darlington: A man who knows the price of everything, and the value of nothing. Cecil… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“It is only about things that do not interest one, that one can give a really unbiassed opinion; and this is no… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“When I see a spade I call it a spade. I'm glad to say I have never seen a spade!” — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
A community is infinitely more brutalised by the habitual employment of punishment than it is by the occasional occurence of crime. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
There is no such thing as romance in our day, women have become too brilliant; nothing spoils a romance so much as… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“One knows so well the popular idea of health: the English country gentleman galloping after a fox - the unspeakable in full… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
[on his deathbed in a Paris hotel room] Either this wallpaper goes, or I do. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“Well, I can't eat muffins in an agitated manner. The butter would probably get on my cuffs. One should always eat muffins… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“My doctor says I must not have any serious conversation after seven [o'clock]. It makes me talk in my sleep.” — 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
“LADY BRACKNELL To speak frankly, I am not in favour of long engagements. They give people the opportunity of finding out each… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Nothing spoils a romance so much as a sense of humor in the woman - or the want of it in the… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
As one reads history ... one is absolutely sickened, not by the crimes that the wicked have committed, but by the punishments… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“If it was my business, I wouldn't talk about it. It is very vulgar to talk about one's business. Only people like… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“All charming people are spoiled. It is the secret of their attraction.” — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“One is tempted to define man as a rational animal who always loses his temper when he is called upon to act… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
I never travel without my diary. One should always have something sensational to read in the train. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“I was on the point of explaining to Gerald that the world has always laughed at its own tragedies, that being the… — 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
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