Fathers should be neither seen nor heard. That is the only proper basis for family life. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Looking good and dressing well is a necessity. Having a purpose in life is not. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Life has been your art. You have set yourself to music. Your days are your sonnets. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
The stage is not merely the meeting place of all the arts, but is also the return of art to life. — 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
And if life be, as it surely is, a problem to me, I am no less a problem to life. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
the costume of the nineteenth century is detestable. It is so sombre, so depressing. Sin is the only real colour-element left in… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
I should have remembered that when one is going to lead an entirely new life, one requires regular and wholesome meals. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“I never approve, or disapprove, of anything now. It is an absurd attitude to take towards life. We are not sent into… — 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
“it is always the women who propose to us, and not we who propose to the women. Except, of course, in middle-class… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
We can have in life but one great experience at best, and the secret of life is to reproduce that experience as… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“I have grown to love secrecy. It seems to be the one thing that can make modern life mysterious or marvellous to… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“The real tragedies of life occur in such an inartistic manner that they hurt us by their crude violence, their absolute incoherence,… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
'The Lady's World' should be made the recognized organ for the expression of women's opinions on all subjects of literature, art and… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Love is fed by the imagination, by which we become wiser than we know, better than we feel, nobler than we are:… — 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
Things are because we see them, and what we see, and how we see it, depends on the Arts that influenced us.… — 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
“Frank Harris has no feelings. It is the secret of his success. Just as the fact that he thinks that other people… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“I asked the question for the best reason possible, for the only reason, indeed, that excuses one for asking any question—simply curiosity.… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
I have grown tired of the articulate utterances of men and things. The Mystical in Art, the Mystical in Life, the Mystical… — 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
“Up to the present man has hardly cultivated sympathy at all. He has merely sympathy with pain, and sympathy with pain is… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“We all take such pains to over-educate ourselves. In the wild struggle for existence, we want to have something that endures, and… — 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
The great events of life often leave one unmoved; they pass out of consciousness, and, when thinks of them, become unreal. Even… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“the people who love only once in their lives are really the shallow people. What they call their loyalty, and their fidelity,… — 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
He lives the poetry that he cannot write. The others write the poetry that they dare not realize — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“Out of the unreal shadows of the night comes back the real life that we had known” — 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
I am always astonishing myself. It is the only thing that makes life worth 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
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
