When a love comes to an end, weaklings cry, efficient ones instantly find another love, and the wise already have one in… — 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
Those who are faithful know only the trivial side of love: it is the faithless who know love's tragedies. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“It is not the perfect, but the imperfect, who have need of love. It is when we are wounded by our own… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
I see when men love women. They give them but a little of their lives. But women when they love give everything. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
I wrote when I did not know life; now that I do know the meaning of life, I have no more to… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“It takes great courage to see the world in all its tainted glory, and still to love it. And even more courage… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
It is sweet to dance to violins When love and life are fair: To dance to flutes, to dance to lutes Is… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
You love the beauty that you can see and touch and handle, the beauty that you can destroy, and do destroy, but… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“Ah! ah! wherefore didst thou not look at me? If thou hadst looked at me thou hadst loved me. Well I know… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“the Garden of Death" "Yes, death. Death must be so beautiful. To lie in the soft brown earth, with the grasses waving… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“Each time that one loves is the only time one has ever loved. Difference of object does not alter singleness of passion.… — 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
When a man has once loved a woman he will do anything for her except continue to love her. — 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
