A map of the world that does not include Utopia is not worth even glancing at, for it leaves out the one… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
The beautiful, passionate, ruined South, the land of magnolias and music, of roses and romance . . . living on the memory of crushing defeats — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
And what sort of lives do these people, who pose as being moral, lead themselves? My dear fellow, you forget that we… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
What between the duties expected of one during one's lifetime, and the duties exacted from one after one's death, land has ceased… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
An entirely new factor has appeared in the social development of the country, and this factor is the Irish-American, and his influence.… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
To shut one's eyes to half of life that one may live securely is as though one blinded oneself that one might… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
And when wind and winter harden All the loveless land, It will whisper of the garden, You will understand. — 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
