It's either the wallpaper or me. One of us has to go. [These were his dying words.] — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
If one hears bad music, it is one's duty to drown it by one's conversation. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
The only form of lying that is absolutely beyond reproach is lying for its own sake. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
I don't like Switzerland; it has produced nothing but theologians and waiters. — 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
Marriage is hardly a thing one can do now and then, except in America. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
What consoles one nowadays is not repentance but pleasure. Repentance is quite out of date. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Life under a good government is rarely dramatic; life under a bad government is always so. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
If Nature had been comfortable, mankind would never have invented architecture... — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
I prefer women with a past. They're always so damned amusing to talk to. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“A grapefruit is only a lemon that saw an opportunity and took advantage of it.” — 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
When both a speaker and an audience are confused, the speech is profound. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
In going to America one learns that poverty is not a necessary accompaniment to civilization. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Love will fly if held too lightly Love will die if held too tightly . . . — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Prayer must never be answered: if it is, it ceases to be prayer and becomes correspondence. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Education is very admirable but let us not forget that anything worth knowing cannot be taught. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Fashion: by which what is really fantastic becomes for a moment the universal. — 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
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
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