The only form of lying that is absolutely beyond reproach is lying for its own sake. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
I may have said the same thing before... but my explanation, I am sure, will always be different. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
I wrote when I did not know life; now that I do know the meaning of life, I have no more to… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
I don't like Switzerland; it has produced nothing but theologians and waiters. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
One should never listen. To listen is a sign of indifference to one's hearers. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
To believe is very dull. To doubt is intensely engrossing. To be on the alert is to live, to be lulled into… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
We women, as some one says, love with our ears, just as you men love with your eyes... — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“It must be remembered that while sympathy with joy intensifies the sum of joy in the world, sympathy with pain does not… — 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
