As a rule, I think they are quite impossible. Geniuses talk so much, don't they? Such a bad habit! And they are… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
M. Zola is determined to show that, if he has not got genius, he can at least be dull. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“Why, my dear Basil, he is a Narcissus, and you—well, of course you have an intellectual expression, and all that. But beauty,… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“real beauty, ends where an intellectual expression begins. Intellect is in itself a mode of exaggeration, and destroys the harmony of any… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“My dear boy, no woman is a genius. Women are a decorative sex. They never have anything to say, but they say… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
I have nothing to declare but my genius, and this four-kilo bag of cocaine. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“Here are two chairs; let us sit down and see the smart people go by.” — 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
