It takes great deal of courage to see the world in all its tainted glory, and still to love it. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
If we men married the women we deserved, we should have a very bad time of it. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
When one pays a visit it is for the purpose of wasting other people's time, not one's own. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Nothing is so dangerous as being too modern; one is apt to grow old fashioned quite suddenly. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Oh, I love London Society! It is entirely composed now of beautiful idiots and brilliant lunatics. Just what Society should be. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
There is one thing worse than an absolutely loveless marriage: a marriage in which there is love, but on one side only. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Loveless marriages are horrible. But there is one thing worse than an absolutely loveless marriage. A marriage in which there is love,… — 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
