“The only way to behave to a woman is to make love to her, if she is pretty, and to some one… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“I'll see if I can't make the bitter waters sweet by the intensity of love I bear you” — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Men always want to be a woman's first love - women like to be a mans last romance. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
He must have a truly romantic nature, for he weepswhen there is nothing at all toweep about. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“Everyone is worthy of love, except him who thinks that he is. Love is a sacrament that should be taken kneeling.” — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“From your silken hair to your delicate feet you are perfection to me. Pleasure hides love from us, but pain reveals it… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Men always want to be a woman's first love - women like to be a man's last romance. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
It was you I thought of all the time, I gave to them the love you did not need: lavished on them… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“Nay, without thought or conscious desire, might not things external to ourselves vibrate in unison with our moods and passions, atom calling… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“What you have told me is quite a romance, a romance of art one might call it, and the worst of having… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Surely Love is a wonderful thing. It is more precious than emeralds, and dearer than fine opals. Pearls and pomegranates cannot buy… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“but love is not fashionable anymore, the poets have killed it. They wrote so much about it that nobody believed them, and… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Men always want to be a woman's first love. That is their clumsy vanity. We woman have a more subtle instinct about… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
What a silly thing love is! It is not half as useful as logic, for it does not prove anything and it… — 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
Romantic art deals with the exception and with the individual. Good people, belonging as they do to the normal, and so, commonplace… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“Dorian, Dorian," she cried, "before I knew you, acting was the one reality of my life. It was only in the theatre… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“And so it is in poetry also: all this love of curious French metres like the Ballade, the Villanelle, the Rondel; all… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“I am not a Pessimist. Indeed I am not sure that I quite know what Pessimism really means. All I do know… — 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
“What are the unreal things, but the passions that once burned one like fire? What are the incredible things, but the things… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“Yes, death. Death must be so beautiful. To lie in the soft brown earth, with the grasses waving above one's head, and… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“Love is the sacrament of life; it sets Virtue where virtue was not; cleanses men Of all the vile pollutions of this… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“I love you, I love you, my heart is a rose which your love has brought to bloom, my life is a… — 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
