Gwendolen, it is a terrible thing for a man to find out suddenly that all his life he has been speaking nothing… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
To have become a deeper man is the privilege of those who have suffered. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
A man who takes himself too seriously will find that no one else takes him seriously. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
If we men married the women we deserved, we should have a very bad time of it. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
It is a great mistake for men to give up paying compliments, for when they give up saying what is charming, they… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
A man is called affected, nowadays, if he dresses as he likes to dress. But in doing that he is acting in… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Women have a much better time than men in this world; there are far more things forbidden to them. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
The proper basis for marriage is mutual misunderstanding. The happiness of a married man depends on the people he has not married.… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Actors are so fortunate. They can choose whether they will appear in tragedy or in comedy, whether they will suffer or make… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
If the Socialism is Authoritarian; if there are Governments armed with economic power as they are now with political power; if, in… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
If a woman wants to hold a man she has merely to appeal to what is worst in him. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
What is a cynic? A man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing. And a sentimentalist, my dear… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Jack? . . . No, there is very little music in the name Jack, if any at all, indeed. It does not… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
I delight in men over seventy. They always offer one the devotion of a lifetime. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“Never marry at all, Dorian. Men marry because they are tired, women, because they are curious: both are disappointed.” — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
The only way a woman can ever reform a man is by boring him so completely that he loses all possible interest… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
LADY BRACKNELL: Do you smoke? JACK: Well, yes, I must admit I smoke. LADY BRACKNELL: I'm glad to hear it. A man… — 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
