Love will fly if held too lightly Love will die if held too tightly . . . — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
How long could you love a woman who didn't love you, Cecil? A woman who didn't love me? Oh, all my life! — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Prayer must never be answered: if it is, it ceases to be prayer and becomes correspondence. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
The beautiful, passionate, ruined South, the land of magnolias and music, of roses and romance . . . living on the memory of crushing defeats — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“Love is a more wonderful thing than art.' 'They are both simply forms of imitation,' remarked Lord Henry.” — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Love is like a booger. You keep picking at it until you get it, then wonder what to do with it. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
He made me see what Life is, and what Death signifies, and why Love is stronger than both. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
The General was essentially a man of peace, except in his domestic life. — 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
His sudden mad love for Sibyl Vane was a psychological phenomenon of no small interest. There was no doubt that curiosity had… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Gwendolen, from The Importance of Being Earnest I never travel without my diary. One should always have something sensational to read on… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“I don't think there is a woman in the world who would not be a little flattered if one made love to… — 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
“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
With subtle and finely-wrought temperaments it is always so. Their strong passions must either bruise or bend. They either slay the man,… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“They spoil every romance by trying to make it last for ever. It is a meaningless word, too. The only difference between… — Oscar wilde Copy Share Image
Now it seems to me that love of some kind is the only possible explanation of the extraordinary amount of suffering that… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
You have killed my love. You used to stir my imagination. Now you don't even stir my curiosity. You simply produce no… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“Do you want to kill his love for you? What sort of existence will he have if you rob him of the… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“People are afraid of themselves, nowadays. They have forgotten the highest of all duties, the duty that one owes to one's self.… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“Unconsciously he defines for me the lines of a fresh new school, a school that is to have in it all the… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“Be happy, cried the Nightingale, be happy; you shall have your red rose. I will build it out of music by moonlight,… — 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
“The error all women commit. Why can’t you women love us, faults and all? Why do you place us on monstrous pedestals?… — 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
