Some temptations are so great it takes great courage to yield to them. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Fashion: by which what is really fantastic becomes for a moment the universal. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Perhaps one never seems so much at ones ease as when one has to play a part. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
I am afraid he has one of those terribly weak natures that are susceptible to influence. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
I like to do all the talking myself. It saves time, and prevents arguments. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Those who have much are often greedy; those who have little often share. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
The true perfection of man lies not in what man has, but in what man is. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
If you cannot write well, you cannot think well; if you cannot think well, others will do your thinking for you. — 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