“She was usually in love with somebody, and, as her passion was never returned, she had kept all her illusions.” — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Life is one fool thing after another whereas love is two fool things after each other. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Don't be afraid. There are exquisite things in store for you. This is merely the beginning. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
There is always something ridiculous about the emotions of people whom one has ceased to love. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
I love hearing my relations abused. It is the only thing that makes me put up with them at all. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“Some one has killed herself for love of you. I wish that I had ever had such an experience.” — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
The only way to behave to a woman is to make love to her if she is pretty, and to someone else… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“The only possible society is oneself. To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.” — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“And his Soul mocked him and said, "Surely thou hast but little joy out of thy love. Thou art as one who… — 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
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
“LORD GORING: ... All I do know is that life cannot be understood without much charity, cannot be lived without much charity.… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Yet each man kills the thing he loves from all let this be heard some does it with a bitter look some… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“But don't you think one can be happy when on is married? Perfectly happy. But the happiness of a married man, my… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“I want to make Romeo jealous! I want the dead lovers of the world to hear our laughter, and grow sad. I… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“I really don't see what is so romantic about proposing. One may be accepted - one usually is, I believe - and… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
He had uttered a mad wish that he himself might remain untarnished, and the face on the canvas bear the burden of… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“And this love of definite conception, this clearness of vision, this artistic sense of limit, is the characteristic of all great work… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Any place you love is the world to you”, explained the pensive Catherine Wheel, who had been attached to an old deal… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
My sweet rose, my delicate flower, my lily of lilies, it is perhaps in prison that I am going to test the… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“Nobody is worthy to be loved. The fact that God loves man shows us that in the divine order of ideal things… — 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
Be happy, be happy; you shall have your red rose. I will build it out of music by moonlight, and stain it… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“I really don't see anything romantic in proposing. It is very romantic to be in love. But there is nothing romantic about… — 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
