And certainly once a man begins to neglect his domestic duties he becomes painfully effeminate, does he not? And I don't like… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Civilization is not by means an easy thing to attain to. There are only two ways by which man can reach it.… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
One's days were too brief to take the burden of another's errors on one's shoulders. Each man lived his own life and… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Don't tell me that you have exhausted Life. When a man says that, one knows that life has exhausted him. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
It is exactly because a man cannot do a thing that he is a proper judge of it — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Well, I don't like your clothes. You look perfectly ridiculous in them. Why on earth don't you go up and change? It's… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Indeed, as any one who has ever worked among the poor knows only too well, the brotherhood of man is no mere… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Men always want to be a woman's first love - women like to be a man's last romance. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Marriage is the one subject on which all women agree and all men disagree. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
There is no man who is not, at each moment, what he has been and what he will be. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Men are such cowards. They outrage every law in the world and are afraid of the world's tongue. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Man is a being with myriad lives and myriad sensations, a complex, multiform creature that bears within itself strange legacies of thought… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
A method of procuring sensations? Do you think then, that a man who has once committed a murder could possibly do the… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
There was purification in punishment. Not 'Forgive us our sins,' but 'Smite us for our iniquities' should be the prayer of a… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
[T]he recognition of private property has really harmed Individualism, and obscured it, by confusing a man with what he possesses. It has… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
A woman's life revolves in curves of emotions. It is upon lines of intellect that a man's life progresses. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
When a man is old enough to do wrong he should be old enough to do right also. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Men always want to be a woman’s first love. That is their clumsy vanity. We women have a more subtle instinct about… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Men know life too early. Women know life too late. That is the difference between men and women. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
The one person who has more illusions than the dreamer is the man of action. — 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
Young men want to be faithful, and are not. Old men want to be faithless, and cannot. — 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