There is no country in the world where machinery is so lovely as in America. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
It is a sad truth, but we have lost the faculty of giving lovely names to things. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
The only people I would care to be with now are artists and people who have suffered: those who know what beauty… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
There is no country in the world where machinery is so lovely as in America. It was not until I had seen… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Palermo was lovely. The most beautifully situated town in the world - it dreams away its life in the Conca d'Oro, the… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
You are more to me than any of them has any idea; you are the atmosphere of beauty through which I see… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
It is a sad truth, but we have lost the faculty of giving lovely names to things. Names are everything. I never… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Ethics, like natural selection, make existence possible. Aesthetics, like sensual selection, make life lovely and wonderful, fill it with new forms, and… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Out of the sea will rise Behemoth and Leviathan, and sail 'round the high-pooped galleys... Dragons will wander about the waste places,… — 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
