My wallpaper and I are fighting a duel to the death. One of us has got to go. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“Most people become bankrupt through having invested too heavily in the prose of life.” — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
The world has grown suspicious of anything that looks like a happily married life. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
A live unexamined isn't worth living. I will add, "A life unlived isn't worth examining. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Life under a good government is rarely dramatic; life under a bad government is always so. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
I've now realised for the first time in my life the vital Importance of Being Earnest. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“The secret seems to be the only way to become mysterious and wonderful modern life. The commonest thing gets a touch fascinating… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
To be entirely free, and at the same time entirely dominated by law, is the eternal paradox of human life. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Gwendolen, it is a terrible thing for a man to find out suddenly that all his life he has been speaking nothing… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
...The two great turning-points of my life were when my father sent to Oxford, and when society sent me to prison. — 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
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
“M. Zola sits down to give us a picture of the Second Empire. Who cares for the Second Empire now? It is… — 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
We quaff the cup of life with eager haste without draining it, instead of which it only overflows the brim - objects… — 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
“Better for him that each sin of his life had brought its sure, swift penalty along with it. There was purification in… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“It was his beauty that had ruined him, his beauty and the youth that he had prayed for. But for those two… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“I keep a diary in order to enter the wonderful secrets of my life. If I didn't write them down, I should… — 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
“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
All art is at once surface and symbol. Those who go beneath the surface do so at their peril. Those who read… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
The secret of life is to appreciate the pleasure of being terribly deceived — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
The growing influence of women is the one reassuring thing in our political life. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
At every single moment of one's life one is what one is going to be no less than what one has been. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“And yet it seems to me to be the one thing I have been looking for all my life.” — 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. — 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
Good taste is the excuse I've always given for leading such a bad life — 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
