Nature, which makes nothing durable, always repeats itself so that nothing which it makes may be lost. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
I have invented an invaluable permanent invalid called Bunbury, in order that I may be able to go down into the country… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
To lose one parent may be regarded as a misfortune; to lose both looks like carelessness. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
For us there is only one season, the season of sorrow. The very sun and moon seem taken from us. Outside, the… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Behind Joy and Laughter there may be a temperament, coarse, hard and callous. But behind Sorrow there is always Sorrow. Pain, unlike… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Surely Love is a wonderful thing. It is more precious than emeralds, and dearer than fine opals. Pearls and pomegranates cannot buy… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
The great things in life are what they seem to be. And for that reason, strange as it may sound to you,… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
I may have said the same thing before... but my explanation, I am sure, will always be different. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Concordantly, while your first question may be the most pertinent, you may or may not realize it is also the most irrelevant. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Cheap editions of great books may be delightful, but cheap editions of great men are absolutely detestable — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Each little thing that we do passes into the great machine of life which may grind our virtues to powder and make… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
It is Nature who makes our artists for us, though it may be Art who taught them their right mode of expression. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
We think that we are generous because we credit our neighbor with those virtues that are likely to benefit ourselves. We praise… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“Keen winter stabs the breasts of May Whose crimson roses burst his frost, Ships tempest-tossed Will find a harbour in some bay,… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Life is a question of nerves, and fibres, and slowly built-up cells in which thought hides itself and passion has its dreams.… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Perhaps there may come into my art also, no less than into my life, a still deeper note, one of greater unity… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Every one of course represents the spirit of his age, but there is an eternal aspect of the Spirit of every age… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
For, try as we may, we cannot get behind the appearence of things to reality. And the terrible reason may be that… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Make some sacrifice for your art and you will be repaid, but ask of art to sacrifice herself for you and a… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
An engagement should come on a young girl as a surprise, pleasant or unpleasant as the case may be. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Alcohol, taken in sufficient quantities, may produce all the effects of drunkenness. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Never trust a woman who wears mauve, whatever her age may be, or a woman over thirty-five who is fond of pink… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Nature....she will hang the night stars so that I may walk abroad in the darkness without stumbling, and send word the wind… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
People say sometimes that Beauty is superficial. That may be so. But at least it is not so superficial as Thought is.… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
LADY BRACKNELL Algernon is an extremely, I may almost say an ostentatiously, eligible young man. He has nothing, but he looks everything.… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
The ugly and stupid have the best of it in this world. They can sit at their ease and gape at the… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Society, as we have constituted it, will have no place for me, has none to offer; but Nature, whose sweet rains fall… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Paradoxically though it may seem, it is none the less true that life imitates art far more than art imitates life. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Prosperity, pleasure and success, may be rough of grain and common in fibre, but sorrow is the most sensitive of all created… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
While to the claims of charity a man may yield and yet be free, to the claims of conformity no man may… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
I really don't see anything romantic in proposing. It is very romantic to be in love. But there is nothing romantic about… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
The fatal errors of life are not due to man's being unreasonable: an unreasonable moment may be one's finest moment. They are… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Ah! happy day they whose hearts can break And peace of pardon win! How else may man make straight his plan And… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Salomé, Salomé, dance for me. I pray thee dance for me. I am sad to-night. Yes, I am passing sad to-night. When… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Everyone may not be good, but there's always something good in everyone. Never judge anyone shortly because every saint has a past… — 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
