A man who is master of himself can end a sorrow as easily as he can invent a pleasure. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
It is only shallow people who require years to get rid of an emotion. A man who is master of himself can… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
To toil for a hard master is bitter, but to have no master to toil for is more bitter still. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
The poet is the supreme artist, for he is the master of colour and of form, and the real musician besides, and… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
I am afraid that woman appreciate cruelty, downright cruelty, more than anything else. They have wonderfully primitive instincts. We have emancipated them,… — 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 Image
Bachelors should be heavily taxed. It is not fair that some men should be happier than others — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“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 Image
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 Image
“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 Image
“Those who find beautiful meanings in beautiful things are the cultivated. For these there is hope.” — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
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 Image