“They were evidently people on a low, material plane of existence, and quite incapable of appreciating the symbolic value of sensuous phenomena.” — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
The only way a woman can ever reform her husband is by boring him so completely that he loses all possible interest… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“A sentimentalist is simply one who wants to have the luxury of an emotion without paying for it. We think we can… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Faithfulness is to the emotional life what consistency is to the life of the intellect - simply a confession of failures. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
I was disappointed in Niagara - most people must be disappointed in Niagara. Every American bride is taken there, and the sight… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Bad artists always admire each other's work. They call it being large-minded and free from prejudice. But a truly great artist cannot… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
There are only two tragedies in life: one is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
The only way a woman can ever reform a man is by boring him so completely that he loses all possible interest… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
I hope you have not been leading a double life, pretending to be wicked and being good all the time. That would… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
To elope is cowardly; it is running away from danger; and danger has become so rare in modern life. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“One of the greatest tragedies of my life is the death of Lucien de Rubempré… It haunts me in my moments of… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“In the wild struggle for existence, we want to have something that endures, and so we fill our minds with rubbish and… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
What a pity that in life we only get our lessons when they are of no use to us. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“People are afraid of themselves, nowadays. They have forgotten the highest of all duties, the duty that one owes to one's self.… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Misfortunes one can endure--they come from outside, they are accidents. But to suffer for one's own faults--ah!--there is the sting of life. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
It is love, and not German philosophy, that is the true explanation of the world, whatever may be the explanation of the… — 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
