Bachelors should be heavily taxed. It is not fair that some men should be happier than others — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
The man who says he has exhausted life generally means that life has exhausted him. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
The past is of no importance. The present is of no importance. It is with the future that we have to deal.… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
I have always been of opinion that a man who desires to get married should know either everything or nothing. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
I made art a philosophy, and philosophy an art: I altered the minds of men, and the colour of things: I awoke… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
What men call the shadow of the body is not the shadow of the body, but is the body of the soul. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Pleasure is Nature's test, her sign of approval. When man is happy, he is in harmony with himself and his environment. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Rich bachelors should be heavily taxed. It is not fair that some men should be happier than others. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Nothing is so aggravating as calmness. There is something positively brutal about the good temper of most modern men. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
By persistently remaining single a man converts himself into a permanent public temptation. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Perhaps one of the most difficult things for us to do is to choose a notable and joyous dress for men. There… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
It is only the superficial qualities that last. Man's deeper nature is soon found out. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Oh, how I vainly wished to the bearded man in the sky that I was Neapolitan. Why? So I could bring in… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“The trouble with women is, that when they grow up, they turn into their mothers. The trouble with men is, that they… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
That beauty which is meant by art is no mere accident of human life which people can take or leave, but a… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
There is something tragic about the enormous number of young men there are in England at the present moment who start life… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
If you cannot prove a man wrong, don't panic. You can always call him names. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Society takes upon itself the right to inflict appalling punishment on the individual, but it also has the supreme vice of shallowness,… — 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
Poets are not so scrupulous as you are. They know how useful passion is for publication. Nowadays a broken heart will run… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Yet each man kills the thing he loves, By each let this be heard, Some do it with a bitter look, Some… — 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
