Those who find ugly meanings in beautiful things are corrupt without being charming. This is a fault. Those who find beautiful meanings… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
The English public takes no interest in a work of art until it is told that the work in question is immoral. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
There is no such thing as morality or immorality in thought. There is immoral emotion. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Algy, you always adopt a strictly immoral attitude towards life. You are not quite old enough to do that. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
All thought is immoral. Its very essence is destruction. If you think of anything, you kill it. Nothing survives being thought of. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written, or badly written. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
It is immoral to use private property in order to alleviate the horrible evils that result from the institutions of private property. — 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
