How long could you love a woman who didn't love you, Cecil? A woman who didn't love me? Oh, all my life! — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“LORD GORING: ... All I do know is that life cannot be understood without much charity, cannot be lived without much charity.… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“That is one of the secrets of life - to cure the soul by means of the senses, and the senses by… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“To-night, for the first time in my life, I saw through the hollowness, the sham, the silliness of the empty pageant in… — 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… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Selfishness is not living as one wisheThe cynic knows the price of everything and the value of nothing. s to live, it… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
It gets rough being alone but just as being alone had started from some place, one will not be alone for the… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
He lives the poetry that he cannot write. The others write the poetry that they dare not realize — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“Most 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
The first duty in life is to be as artificial as possible. What the second duty is no one has as yet… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
One should absorb the colour of life, but one should never remember its details. Details are always vulgar. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“But it was to teach man to concentrate himself upon the moments of a life that is itself but a moment.” — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
JACK That is nonsense. If I marry a charming girl like Gwendolen, and she is the only girl I ever saw in… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“You know how I love secrecy. It is the only thing that can make modern life wonderful or mysterious to us. The… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
But what of life whose bitter hungry sea Flows at our heels, and gloom of sunless night Covers the days which never… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Life is a question of nerves, and fibres, and slowly built-up cells in which thought hides itself and passion has its dreams.… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
The sure way of knowing nothing about life is to try to make oneself useful. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Perhaps there may come into my art also, no less than into my life, a still deeper note, one of greater unity… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
He rides in the row at ten o clock in the morning, goes to the Opera three times a week, changes his… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Newspapers. . . give us the bald, sordid, disgusting facts of life. They chronicle, with degrading avidity, the sins of the second-rate,… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
The truth is rarely pure and never simple. Modern life would be very tedious if it were either, and modern literature a… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
No theory of life seemed to him to be of any importance compared with life itself — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
The people who have adored me-- there have not been very many, but there have been some-- have always insisted on living… — 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
