Men always want to be a woman's first love. Women have a more subtle instinct: What they like is to be a… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Life under a good government is rarely dramatic; life under a bad government is always so. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Learned conversation is either the affectation of the ignorant or the profession of the mentally unemployed. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
What consoles one nowadays is not repentance but pleasure. Repentance is quite out of date. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
When a love comes to an end, weaklings cry, efficient ones instantly find another love, and the wise already have one in… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
I prefer women with a past. They're always so damned amusing to talk to. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
If Nature had been comfortable, mankind would never have invented architecture... — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Most people live for love and admiration. But it is by love and admiration that we should live. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Love is not a clock. You simply cannot take it apart just to see what makes it tick, and even if you… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
There is one thing worse than an absolutely loveless marriage: a marriage in which there is love, but on one side only. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“In love, one always begins in deceiving oneself, and one always ends in deceiving others.” — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love, but no friendship. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Love is like a war; easy to start but hard to end and you never know where it might take you. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“Men always want to be woman's first love - women like to be men's last romance” — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Shallow sorrows and shallow loves live on. The loves and sorrows that are great are destroyed by their own plenitude. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Her capacity for family affection is extraordinary. When her third husband died, her hair turned quite gold from grief. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
The worst of having a romance of any kind is that it leaves one so unromantic. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Music makes one feel so romantic - at least it always gets on one's nerves - which is the same thing nowadays. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“One is sure to be disappointed if one tries to get romance out of modern life.” — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
It's either the wallpaper or me. One of us has to go. [These were his dying words.] — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Love! What is love? It's nothing. It's just a word. It doesn't exist. Only pleasure is important. — 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
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