Love is like a war; easy to start but hard to end and you never know where it might take you. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
As one knows the poet by his fine music, so one can recognize the liar by his rich rhythmic utterance, and in… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
I wrote when I did not know life; now that I do know the meaning of life, I have no more to… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
You love the beauty that you can see and touch and handle, the beauty that you can destroy, and do destroy, but… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
When I am in trouble, eating is the only thing that consoles me. Indeed, as any one who knows me intimately will… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
The British cook, for her iniquities, is a foolish woman who should be turned into a pillar of salt which she never… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
The only thing that one really knows about human nature is that it changes. Change is the one quality we can predicate… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
No man dies for what he knows to be true. Men die for what they want to be true, for what some… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Who is that man over there? I don't know him. What is he doing? Is he a conspirator? Have you searched him?… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
To have friends, you know, one need only be good-natured; but when a man has no enemy left there must be something… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“You know we poor artists have to show ourselves in society from time to time, just to remind the public that we… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
LADY STUTFIELD I adore silent men. MRS ALLONBY Oh, Ernest isn't silent. He talks the whole time. But he has got no… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Don't tell me that you have exhausted Life. When a man says that, one knows that life has exhausted him. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
[T]he recognition of private property has really harmed Individualism, and obscured it, by confusing a man with what he possesses. It has… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
The one advantage of playing with fire...is that no one ever gets singed. It is the people who don't know how to… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
I know not whether Laws be right, Or whether Laws be wrong; All that we know who be in jail Is that… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Examinations, sir, are pure humbug from beginning to end. If a man is a gentleman, he knows quite enough, and if he… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Without order nothing can exist-without chaos nothing can evolve. Nowadays people know the price of everything and the value of nothing. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Just to let you know that the buffet car will be closing for stocktaking in five minutes. The next station stop is… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
The salesman knows nothing of what he is selling save that he is charging a great deal too much for it. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
To make a good salad is to be a brilliant diplomatist - the problem is entirely the same in both cases. To… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
We call ours a utilitarian age, and we do not know the uses of any single thing. We have forgotten that water… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Poets know how useful passion is for publication. Nowadays a broken heart will run to many editions. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Nothing is good in moderation. You cannot know good in anything until you have torn the heart out of it by excess. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
I'm sure I don't know half the people who come to my house. Indeed, from all I hear, I shouldn't like to. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
The camera, you know, will never capture you. Photography, in my experience, has the miraculous power of transferring wine into water. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
What is a cynic? A man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing. And a sentimentalist, my dear… — 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
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