Life is the art of being well deceived, and to succeed, it must be habitual and uninterrupted. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
The only one you need in your life is that person who shows you he needs you in his. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
There is only one thing in life worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
In a very ugly and sensible age, the arts borrow, not from life, but from each other. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
The soul is born old but grows young. That is the comedy of life. And the body is born young and grows… — 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, on what little things does happiness depend! I have read all that the wise men have written, and all the secrets… — 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
Life cheats us with shadows. We ask it for pleasure. It gives it to us with bitterness and disappointment in its train. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
We should treat all the trivial things of life seriously, and all the serious things of life with sincere and studied triviality. — 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
“Harry spends his days in saying what is incredible, and his evenings in doing what is improbable. Just the sort of life… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“tone of colour in a room or a morning sky, a particular perfume that you had once loved and that brings subtle… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Be happy, be happy; you shall have your red rose. I will build it out of music by moonlight, and stain it… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
It is sometimes said that the tragedy of an artist's life is that he cannot realise his ideal. But the true tragedy… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
You are more to me than any of them has any idea; you are the atmosphere of beauty through which I see… — 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
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
Early in life she had discovered the important truth that nothing looks so like innocence as an indiscretion; and by a series… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Man is a being with myriad lives and myriad sensations, a complex, multiform creature that bears within itself strange legacies of thought… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“All these appeals to art to set herself more in harmony with modern progress and civilisation, and to make herself the mouthpiece… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“And so he would now study perfumes, and the secrets of their manufacture, distilling heavily-scented oils, and burning odorous gums from the… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“But you don’t really mean to say that you couldn’t love me if my name wasn’t Ernest? GWENDOLEN: But your name is… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“This is that CONSOLATION DES ARTS which is the key-note of Gautier’s poetry, the secret of modern life foreshadowed - as indeed… — 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
“The great and golden rule of art as well as of life, wrote William Blake, is that the more distinct, sharp and… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Death is a great price to pay for a red rose“, cried the Nightingale, "and Life is very dear to all. “… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“The security of society lies in custom and unconscious instinct, and the basis of the stability of society, as a healthy organism,… — 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
Bachelors should be heavily taxed. It is not fair that some men should be happier than others — Oscar Wilde Copy Share
“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
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
“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
“Those who find beautiful meanings in beautiful things are the cultivated. For these there is hope.” — Oscar Wilde Copy Share
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
Why is it that at a bachelor's establishment the servants invariably drink the champagne. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share
Moderation is a fatal thing. Enough is as bad as a meal. More than enough is as good as a feast. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share
Beauty is the only thing that time cannot harm. Philosophies fall away like sand, creeds follow one another, but what is beautiful is a… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share
