The only thing that ever consoles man for the stupid things he does is the praise he always gives himself for doing… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Behind the perfection of a man's style, must lie the passion of a man's soul. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
In his very rejection of art Walt Whitman is an artist. He tried to produce a certain effect by certain means and… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Just as the philanthropist is the nuisance of the ethical sphere, so the nuisance of the intellectual sphere is the man who… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
There is no such thing as a heterosexual male, only men who haven't met Oscar Wilde yet. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Every woman becomes their mother. That's their tragedy. And no man becomes his. That's his tragedy. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
A man who marries without knowing Bunbury has a very tedious time of it. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
What art seeks to disturb is monotony of type, slavery of custom, tyranny of habit, and the reduction of man to the… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
I quite agree with Dr. Nordau's assertion that all men of genius are insane, but Dr. Nordau forgets that all sane people… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
We women, as some one says, love with our ears, just as you men love with your eyes... — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Oh! I don't think I would like to catch a sensible man. I shouldn't know what to talk to him about. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Most men and women are forced to perform parts for which they have no qualification. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
The only artists I have ever known who are personally delightful are bad artists. Good artists exist simply in what they make,… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
The form of government that is most suitable to the artist is no government at all. ... One might point out how… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
As it was, we always misunderstood ourselves and rarely understood others. Experience was of no ethical value. It was merely the name… — 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
No man dies for what he knows to be true. Men die for what they want to be true, for what some… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
The crude commercialism of America, its materialising spirit, its indifference to the poetical side of things, and its lack of imagination and… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Religion is like a blind man looking in a black room for a black cat that isn't there, and finding it. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
The evil that machinery is doing is not merely in the consequence of its work but in the fact that it makes… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
But beauty, real beauty, ends where an intellectual expression begins. Intellect is in itself a mode of exaggeration, and destroys the harmony… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
The man who sees both sides of a question is a man who sees absolutely nothing at all. — 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
