Don't squander the gold of your days, listening to the tedious, trying to improve the hopeless failure, or giving away your life… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
God grant me the serenity to accept that people are ignorant, the courage to uphold the law when I'm hostile, & the… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
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
Learned conversation is either the affectation of the ignorant or the profession of the mentally unemployed. — 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
