Humanity takes itself too seriously. It is the world's original sin. If the cave-man had known how to laugh, History would have… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Set in this stormy Northern sea, Queen of these restless fields of tide, England! what shall men say of thee, Before whose… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
With subtle and finely-wrought temperaments it is always so. Their strong passions must either bruise or bend. They either slay the man,… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
I have grown tired of the articulate utterances of men and things. The Mystical in Art, the Mystical in Life, the Mystical… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
An artist should create beautiful things, but should put nothing of his own life into them. We live in an age when… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Love does not traffic in a marketplace, nor use a huckster's scales. Its joy, like the joy of the intellect, is to… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
The happiness of a married man depends on the people he has not married. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
When I see a spade, I call it a spade. I'm glad to say I have never seen a spade. The man… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
No man should have a secret from his wife. She invariably finds it out. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
'The Lady's World' should be made the recognized organ for the expression of women's opinions on all subjects of literature, art and… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Wherever there is a man who exercises authority, there is a man who resists authority. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
A man who is master of himself can end a sorrow as easily as he can invent a pleasure. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Oscar Wilde was suing the Marquis of Queensbury in 1895 for libel accusing Wilde of homosexuality Counsel: Have you ever adored a… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
And thus we rust Life's iron chain Degraded and alone: And some men curse, and some men weep, And some men make… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Aestheticism is a search after the signs of the beautiful. It is the science of the beautiful through which men seek the… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
A man whose desire is to be something separate from himself, to be a member of Parliament, or a successful grocer, or… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
By the artificial separation of soul and body men have invented a Realism that is vulgar and an Idealism that is void. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“That every prison that men build Is built with bricks of shame, And bound with bars lest Christ should see How men… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
A man's life is of more value than a woman's. It has larger issues, wider scope, greater ambitions. Our lives revolve in… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Every great man nowadays has his disciples, and it is usually Judas who writes the biography. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
If a man needs an elaborate tombstone in order to remain in the memory of his country, it is clear that his… — 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
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
