The consciousness of loving and being loved brings a warmth and richness to life that nothing else can bring. — 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
Anyone can sympathize with the sufferings of a friend, but it requires a very fine nature to sympathize with a friend's success. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
A man cannot reason with the woman he loves: he cares about her too much. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
sorrow...is a wound that bleeds when any hand but that of love touches it — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
I am sick of women who love one. Women who hate one are much more interesting. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
I love talking about nothing. It is the only thing I know anything about. — 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 am not laughing Dorian; at least I am not laughing at you. But you should not say the greatest romance of… — 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
It is that deep spiritual affection that is as pure as it is perfect. It is beautiful, it is fine, it is… — 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
“For not in quiet English fields Are these, our brothers, lain to rest, Where we might deck their broken shields With all… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Medievalism, with its saints and martyrs, its love of self-torture, its wild passion for wounding itself, its gashing with knives, and its… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“O crowned by God with thorns and pain! Mother of Christ! O mystic wife! my heart is weary of this life And… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
There is no such thing as romance in our day, women have become too brilliant; nothing spoils a romance so much as… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
What a silly thing love is!' said the student as he walked away. 'It is not half as useful as logic, for… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
I did not think I should be ever loved: do you indeed Love me so much as now you say you do?… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“A fit of passionate sobbing choked her. She crouched on the floor like a wounded thing, and Dorian Gray, with his beautiful… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
To give and not expect return, that is what lies at the heart of love. — 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
