On an occasion of this kind it becomes more than a moral duty to speak one's mind. It becomes a pleasure. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
There are three kinds of despots. There is the despot who tyrannizes over the body. There is the despot who tyrannizes over… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Now it seems to me that love of some kind is the only possible explanation of the extraordinary amount of suffering that… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
It is awfully hard work doing nothing. However, I don't mind hard work when there is no definite object of any kind.… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Now it seems to me that love of some kind is the only possible explanation of the extraordinary amount of suffering that… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
It is awfully hard work doing nothing. However, I don't mind hard work where there is no definite object of any kind.… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
And thus we rust Life's iron chain Degraded and alone: And some men curse, and some men weep, And some men make… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
To exercise power costs effort and demands courage. That is why so many fail to assert rights to which they are perfectly… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
The worst of having a romance of any kind is that it leaves one so unromantic. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Just as the worst slave-owners were those who were kind to their slaves, and so prevented the horror of the system being… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Now and then the fantastic shadows of birds in flight flitted across the long tussore-silk curtains that were stretched in front of… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
A man who does not think for himself does not think at all. It is grossly selfish to require of one's neighbour… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
The modern sympathy with invalids is morbid. Illness of any kind is hardly a thing to be encouraged in others. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Hesitation of any kind is a sign of mental decay in the young, of physical weakness in the old. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
They are always asking a writer why he does not write like somebody else, or a painter why he does not paint… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
And now, dear Mr. Worthing, I will not intrude any longer into a house of sorrow. I would merely beg you not… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Do you smoke? Well, yes, I must admit I smoke. I'm glad to hear of it. A man should always have an… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
LADY BRACKNELL: Do you smoke? JACK: Well, yes, I must admit I smoke. LADY BRACKNELL: I'm glad to hear it. A man… — 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
