Love will fly if held too lightly Love will die if held too tightly . . . — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Art should never try to be popular. The public should try to make itself artistic. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
If Nature had been comfortable, mankind would never have invented architecture... — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Men always want to be a woman’s first love. That is their clumsy vanity. We women have a more subtle instinct about… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
It's either the wallpaper or me. One of us has to go. [These were his dying words.] — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
When both a speaker and an audience are confused, the speech is profound. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
At every single moment of one's life one is what one is going to be no less than what one has been. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Anybody can have common sense, provided that they have no imagination. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
More than half of modern culture depends upon what one shouldn't read. — 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
