The true perfection of man lies not in what man has, but in what man is. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
What men call the shadow of the body is not the shadow of the body, but is the body of the soul. — 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 vilest deeds like poison weeds Bloom well in prison air; It is only what is good in man That wastes and… — 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
If we men married the women we deserved, we should have a very bad time of it. — 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
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
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
“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
Now, nothing should be able to harm a man except himself. Nothing should be able to rob a man at all. What… — 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
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
To give an accurate description of what has never occurred is not merely the proper occupation of the historian, but the inalienable… — 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
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
No publisher should ever express an opinion on the value of what he publishes. That is a matter entirely for the literary… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
If you meet at dinner a man who has spent his life in educating himself - a rare type in our time… — 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
The mere mechanical technique of acting can be taught, but the spirit that is to give life to lifeless forms must be… — 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
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
To be popular one must be a mediocrity." "Not with Women," said the duchess, shaking her head; "and women rule the world.… — 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
A man who moralizes is a hypocrite, and a woman who does so is invariably plain. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
It is curious how vanity helps the successful man and wrecks the failure. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
The General was essentially a man of peace, except in his domestic life. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Women treat us [men] like humanity treats gods – they worship us and keep bothering us to do something. — 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
It is exactly because a man cannot do a thing that he is a proper judge of it — 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
Nothing is so aggravating as calmness. There is something positively brutal about the good temper of most modern men. — 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
Rich bachelors should be heavily taxed. It is not fair that some men should be happier than others. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
The value of an idea has nothing whatever to do with the sincerity of the man who expresses it. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Well, in the first place girls never marry the men they flirt with. Girls don't think it right. — 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
The books that the world calls immoral are the books that show the world its own shame. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share
Bachelors should be heavily taxed. It is not fair that some men should be happier than others — Oscar Wilde Copy Share
“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
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
“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
“Those who find beautiful meanings in beautiful things are the cultivated. For these there is hope.” — Oscar Wilde Copy Share
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
Why is it that at a bachelor's establishment the servants invariably drink the champagne. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share
Moderation is a fatal thing. Enough is as bad as a meal. More than enough is as good as a feast. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share
Beauty is the only thing that time cannot harm. Philosophies fall away like sand, creeds follow one another, but what is beautiful is a… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share
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