The world is changed because you are made of ivory and gold. The curves of your lips rewrite history. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
I have been right, Basil, haven’t I, to take my love out of poetry, and to find my wife in Shakespeare’s plays?… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
When a golden girl can win Prayer from out the lips of sin, When the barren almond bears, And a little child… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
one pale woman all alone, The daylight kissing her wan hair, Loitered beneath the gas lamps' flare, With lips of flame and… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
And her sweet red lips on these lips of mine Burned like the ruby fire set In the swinging lamp of a… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
The sick do not ask if the hand that smoothes their pillow is pure, nor the dying care if the lips that… — 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
