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
I have no objection to anyone's sex life as long as they don't practice it in the street and frighten the horses. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Ah! realize your youth while you have it. Don’t squander the gold of your days, listening to the tedious, trying to improve… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“When I was young I thought money was the most important thing in life, now that I'm old - I know it… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“It often happens that the real tragedies of life occur in such an inartistic manner that they hurt us by their crude… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“I can't explain. When I like people immensely, I never tell their names to any one. It is like surrendering a part… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
It is sweet to dance to violins When love and life are fair: To dance to flutes, to dance to lutes Is… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“I believe that if one man were to live out his life fully and completely, were to give form to every feeling,… — 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
“there is no doubt that genius lasts longer than beauty. That accounts for the fact that we all take such pains to… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Aestheticism is a search after the signs of the beautiful. It is the science of the beautiful through which men seek the… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
To believe is very dull. To doubt is intensely engrossing. To be on the alert is to live, to be lulled into… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
A man's life is of more value than a woman's. It has larger issues, wider scope, greater ambitions. Our lives revolve in… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Lord Darlington (LD): I think life too complex a thing to be settled by these hard and fast rules. Lady Windemere (LW):… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
I never saw so many well-dressed, well-fed, business-looking Bohemians in my life. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“Life has everything in store for you, Dorian. There is nothing that you, with your extraordinary good looks, will not be able… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“When I like people immensely I never tell their names to anyone. It is like surrendering a part of them. I have… — 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
Life is not governed by will or intention. Life is a question of nerves, and fibres, and slowly built-up cells in which… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
The American father is never seen in London. He passes his life entirely in Wall Street and communicates with his family once… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“One is sure to be disappointed if one tries to get romance out of modern life.” — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“There are two tradgedies in life: one is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it.” — 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
