To look wise is quite as good as understanding a thing, and very much easier. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
No woman should ever be quite accurate about her age. It looks so calculating. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
That is the mission of art - to make us pause and look at a thing a second time. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
The world has grown suspicious of anything that looks like a happy married life. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
He is really not so ugly after all, provided, of course, that one shuts one's eyes, and does not look at him. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Only people who look dull ever get into the House of Commons, and only people who are dull ever succeed there. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
London is full of women who trust their husbands. One can always recognize them. They look so thoroughly unhappy. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Things are in their essence what we choose to make them. A thing is, according to the mode in which one looks… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
I find I have, and a heart doesn’t suit me, Windermere. Somehow it doesn’t go with modern dress. It makes one look… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Twenty years of romance makes a woman look like a ruin; but twenty years of marriage makes her something like a public… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
I have never met any really wicked person before. I feel rather frightened. I am so afraid he will look just like… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Art is not to be taught in Academies. It is what one looks at, not what one listens to, that makes the… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
As I lounged in the Park, or strolled down Piccadilly, I used to look at everyone who passed me, and wonder, with… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
A daughter is a mother's gender partner, her closest ally in the family confederacy, an extension of herself. -Author Unknown As long… — 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
Modern pictures are, no doubt, delightful to look at. At least, some of them are. But they are quite impossible to live… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Well, I don't like your clothes. You look perfectly ridiculous in them. Why on earth don't you go up and change? It's… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Do you really keep a diary? I'd give anything to look at it. May I? Oh, no. You see, it is simply… — 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
A map of the world that does not include Utopia is not worth even glancing at, for it leaves out the one… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
But beauty, real beauty, ends where an intellectual expression begins. Intellect is in itself a mode of exaggeration, and destroys the harmony… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
The ugly and stupid have the best of it in this world. They can sit at their ease and gape at the… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Your machinery is beautiful. Your society people have apologized to me for the envious ridicule with which your newspapers have referred to… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
The only artists I have ever known who are personally delightful are bad artists. Good artists exist simply in what they make,… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Yet each man kills the thing he loves, By each let this be heard, Some do it with a bitter look, Some… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
It seems to me that we all look at Nature too much, and live with her too little. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
To lose one parent may be regarded as a misfortune; to lose both looks like carelessness. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
I am thoroughly sick of pearls. They make one look so plain, so good and so intellectual. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
The amount of women in London who flirt with their own husbands is perfectly scandalous. It looks so bad. It is simply… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“Look at the moon. How strange the moon seems! She is like a woman rising from a tomb. She is like a… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
LADY BRACKNELL Algernon is an extremely, I may almost say an ostentatiously, eligible young man. He has nothing, but he looks everything.… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
I choose my friends for their good looks, my acquaintances for their good characters, and my enemies for their intellects. A man… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
What seems to us as bitter trials are often blessings in disguise [in the future. But only if we set out to… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
He is some brainless, beautiful creature, who should always be here in winter when we have no flowers to look at, and… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
I have pleasures, and passions, but the joy of life is gone. I am going under: the morgue yawns for me. I… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
You have always told me it was Ernest. I have introduced you to every one as Ernest. You answer to the name… — 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
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