Men always want to be a woman's first love. That is their clumsy vanity. We women have a more subtle instinct about… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“They say that love hath a bitter taste… But what matter? What matter? I have kissed thy mouth.” — 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
Women love us for our defects. If we have enough of them, they will forgive us everything, even our gigantic intellects. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
My wallpaper and I are fighting a duel to the death. One or the other of us has to go. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
I love to talk about nothing. It's the only thing I know anything about. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
As for begging, it is safer to beg than to take, but it is finer to take than to beg — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
There is only one real tragedy in a woman's life. The fact that her past is always her lover, and her future… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“But surely it is something to have been The best beloved for a little while, To have walked hand in hand with… — 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
“I like the duchess very much, but I don't love her." "And the duchess loves you very much, but she likes you… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“Love is a wonderful thing. It is more precious than emeralds and dearer than fine opals. pearls and pomegranates cannot buy it,… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“The people who love only once in their lives are really the shallow people. (...) Faithfulness is to the emotional life what… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
He had that curious love of green, which in individuals is always the sign of a subtle artistic temperament, and in nations… — 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
Men always want to be a woman’s first love. That is their clumsy vanity. We women have a more subtle instinct about… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Perhaps one never seems so much at ones ease as when one has to play a part. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
The good we get from art is not what we learn from it; it is what we become through it. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
All sins, except a sin against itself, Love should forgive. All lives, save loveless lives, true Love should pardon. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“We women, as some one says, love with our ears, just as you men love with your eyes, if you ever love… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“Love - well, not love at first sight, but love at the end of the season, which is so much more satisfactory.” — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Twenty years of romance makes a woman look like a ruin; but twenty years of marriage makes her something like a public… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
I think it is perfectly natural for any artist to admire intensely and love a young man. It is an incident in… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
We women, as some one says, love with our ears, just as you men love with your eyes... — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
He must have a truly romantic nature, for he weeps when there is nothing at all to weep 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
