Words! Mere words! How terrible they were! How clear, and vivid, and cruel! One could not escape from them. And yet what… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
We have really everything in common with America nowadays, except, of course, language. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“I never believe a single word that either you or I say to each other.” — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“Names are everything. I never quarrel with actions. My one quarrel is with words. That is the reason I hate vulgar realism… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“Thought and language are to the artist instruments of an art. Vice and virtue are to the artist materials for an art.” — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
There is no mode of action, no form of emotion, that we do not share with the lower animals. It is only… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
I love the French language... it's a delightful language, especially to curse with. It's like whopping your ass with silk. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
The Americans are identical to the British in all respects except, of course, language. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Like two doomed ships that pass in storm we had crossed each other's way: but we made no sign, we said no… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“Thought and language are to the artist instruments of an art. Vice and virtue are the artist’s materials for an art. From… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
His style is chaos illumined by flashes of lightning. As a writer he has mastered everything except language. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Actions are the first tragedy in life, words are the second. Words are perhaps the worst. Words are merciless. . . — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
I am Irish by race but the English have condemned me to talk the language of Shakespeare. — 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
