No theory of life seemed to him to be of any importance compared with life itself — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
I've now realised for the first time in my life the vital Importance of Being Earnest. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
In matters of grave importance, style, not sincerity, is the vital thing. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Now, nothing should be able to harm a man except himself. Nothing should be able to rob a man at all. What… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
The past is of no importance. The present is of no importance. It is with the future that we have to deal.… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Yes, I am a thorough republican. No other form of government is so favorable to the growth of art. ...because of the… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Each class preaches the importance of those virtues it need not exercise. The rich harp on the value of thrift, the idle… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Do you know that I am afraid that good people do a great deal of harm in this world? Certainly the greatest… — 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
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
There is much to be said in favor of modern journalism. By giving us the opinions of the uneducated, it keeps us… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
That very concentration of vision and intensity of purpose which is the characteristic of the artistic temperament is in itself a mode… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Society, civilized society at least, is never very ready to believe anything to the detriment of those who are both rich and… — 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
Bachelors should be heavily taxed. It is not fair that some men should be happier than others — Oscar Wilde Copy Share
“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
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
“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
“Those who find beautiful meanings in beautiful things are the cultivated. For these there is hope.” — Oscar Wilde Copy Share
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
Why is it that at a bachelor's establishment the servants invariably drink the champagne. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share
Moderation is a fatal thing. Enough is as bad as a meal. More than enough is as good as a feast. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share
Beauty is the only thing that time cannot harm. Philosophies fall away like sand, creeds follow one another, but what is beautiful is a… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share
