After playing Chopin, I feel as if I had been weeping over sins that I had never committed and mourning over tragedies… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
And if life be, as it surely is, a problem to me, I am no less a problem to life. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Do not be afraid of the past. If people tell you that it is irrevocable, do not believe them. The past, the… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
That beauty which is meant by art is no mere accident of human life which people can take or leave, but a… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Niagara Falls is simply a vast unnecessary amount of water going over the wrong way and then falling over unnecessary cliffs...The wonder… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
If you cannot prove a man wrong, don't panic. You can always call him names. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
If a friend of mine gave a feast, and did not invite me to it, I should not mind a bit. but… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
One must have some sort of occupation nowadays. If I hadn't my debts I shouldn't have anything to think about. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Really, if the lower orders don't set a good example, what on earth is the use of them? — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
They flaunt their conjugal felicity in one's face, as if it were the most fascinating of sins. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
If you are going to tell people the truth, you had better make them laugh or they will kill you. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
An artist should create beautiful things, but should put nothing of his own life into them. We live in an age when… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
In England ... education produces no effect whatsoever. If it did, it would prove a serious danger to the upper classes, and… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Do not be afraid of the past. If people tell you that it is irrevocable, do not believe them. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Lord Darlington (LD): I think life too complex a thing to be settled by these hard and fast rules. Lady Windemere (LW):… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
If a man needs an elaborate tombstone in order to remain in the memory of his country, it is clear that his… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
In his very rejection of art Walt Whitman is an artist. He tried to produce a certain effect by certain means and… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Somehow or other I'll be famous, and if not famous, I'll be notorious. — 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
If art is to have a special train, the critic must keep some seats reserved on it. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Alone, and without any reference to his neighbours, without any interference, the artist can fashion a beautiful thing; and if he does… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Well, one must be serious about something, if one wants to have any amusement in life. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
I do not approve of anything that tampers with natural ignorance. Ignorance is like a delicate exotic fruit; touch it and the… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Bunbury? Oh, he was quite exploded. Exploded! Was he the victim of a revolutionary outrage? I was not aware that Mr. Bunbury… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
The first thing that struck me on landing in America was that if the Americans are not the most well-dressed people in… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Love will fly if held too lightly Love will die if held too tightly . . . — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
If Nature had been comfortable, mankind would never have invented architecture... — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
If a friend of mine gave a feast, and did not invite me to it, I should not mind a bit. But… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
If it is not nailed to the floor, it's mine. If I can pry it loose, it is not nailed down. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
What is the good of friendship if one cannot say exactly what one means? — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Examinations, sir, are pure humbug from beginning to end. If a man is a gentleman, he knows quite enough, and if he… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
You shut out from your society the gentle and the good. You laugh at the simple and the pure. living, as you… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
If you meet at dinner a man who has spent his life in educating himself - a rare type in our time… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
If God wished to punish us, all he would need to do would be to answer our prayers. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
A man who does not think for himself does not think at all. It is grossly selfish to require of one's neighbour… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
What seems to us as bitter trials are often blessings in disguise [in the future. But only if we set out to… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Prayer must never be answered: if it is, it ceases to be prayer and becomes correspondence. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
The Ideal Man should talk to us as if we were goddesses, and treat us as if we were children. He should… — 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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