Who is that man over there? I don't know him. What is he doing? Is he a conspirator? Have you searched him?… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
To have friends, you know, one need only be good-natured; but when a man has no enemy left there must be something… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
I don't like compliments, and I don't see why a man should think he is pleasing a woman enormously when he says… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
The nineteenth century is a turning point in history, simply on account of the work of two men, Darwin and Renan, the… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Experience was of no ethical value. It was merely the name men gave to their mistakes. Moralists had, as a rule, regarded… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Every man of ambition has to fight his century with its own weapons. What this century worships is wealth. The God of… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
It is curious how vanity helps the successful man and wrecks the failure. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
A man who moralizes is a hypocrite, and a woman who does so is invariably plain. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
To make men Socialists is nothing, but to make Socialism human is a great thing. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
I don't know how to talk. Oh! talk to every woman as if you loved her, and to every man as if… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Dear little Swallow,’ said the Prince, ‘you tell me of marvelous things, but more marvelous than anything is the suffering of men… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
The mind of the thoroughly well-informed man is a dreadful thing. It is like a bric-à-brac shop, all monsters and dust, with… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
The truth about the life of a man is not what he does, but the legend which he creates around himself. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
The true perfection of man lies not in what man has, but in what man is. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
It is quite true that I have worshipped you with far more romance of feeling than a man usually gives to a… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Ah, on what little things does happiness depend! I have read all that the wise men have written, and all the secrets… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Believe me, no civilized man ever regrets a pleasure, and no uncivilized man ever knows what a pleasure is. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
When one has never heard a man's name in the course of one's life, it speaks volumes for him; he must be… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Sometimes the poor are praised for being thrifty. But to recommend thrift to the poor is both grotesque and insulting. It is… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
What a fuss people make about fidelity!" exclaimed Lord Henry. "Why, even in love it is purely a question for physiology. It… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
There should be a law that no ordinary newspaper should be allowed to write about art. The harm they do by their… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
It is a very poor consolation to be told that the man who has given one a bad dinner, or poor wine,… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
LADY STUTFIELD I adore silent men. MRS ALLONBY Oh, Ernest isn't silent. He talks the whole time. But he has got no… — 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
