Many people become bankrupt through having invested too heavily in the prose of life. To have ruined one's self over poetry is… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Life is one fool thing after another whereas love is two fool things after each other. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“Jack: “Gwendolen, it is a terrible thing for a man to find out suddenly that all his life he has been speaking… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Life, Lady Stutfield, is simply a mauvais quart d'heure made up of exquisite moments. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
The man who says he has exhausted life generally means that life has exhausted him. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“The aim of life is self-development. To realize one's nature perfectly—that is what each of us is here for. People are afraid… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
The growing influence of women is the one reassuring thing in our political life. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
...The two great turning-points of my life were when my father sent to Oxford, and when society sent me to prison. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“Sin is the only real colour-element left in modern life.' 'You really must not say things like that before Dorian, Harry.' 'Before… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
It is through¦ Art and Art only that we can shield ourselves from the sordid perils of actual existence. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“That is one of the great secrets of life Nowadays most people die of a sort of creeping common sense, and discover… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“people who only love once in their lives are really shallow people. What they call their loyalty, and their fidelity, I call… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
A live unexamined isn't worth living. I will add, "A life unlived isn't worth examining. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Imagination is a quality that was given to man compensate him from whats not. The sense of humor was given to console… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Romance lives by repetition, and repetition converts an appetite into an art. Besides, each time that one loves is the only time… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“I would sooner say, or hear it said of me, that I was so typical a child of my age, that in… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
One can live for years sometimes without living at all, and then all life comes crowding into one single hour. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“It is pure unadulterated country life. They get up early because they have so much to do, and go to bed early,… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Life is the art of being well deceived, and to succeed, it must be habitual and uninterrupted. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“I keep a diary in order to enter the wonderful secrets of my life. If I didn't write them down, I should… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Perhaps one of the most difficult things for us to do is to choose a notable and joyous dress for men. There… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
If one were to live his life fully and completely were to give form to every feeling, expression to every thought, reality… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live; it is asking others to live as one wishes to live. And unselfishness… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
I think it is perfectly natural for any artist to admire intensely and love a young man. It is an incident in… — 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
