Men know life too early. Women know life too late. That is the difference between men and women. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Every great man nowadays has his disciples, and it is usually Judas who writes the biography. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
I hate vulgar realism in literature. The man who would call a spade a spade should be compelled to use one. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Good resolutions are simply checks that men draw on a bank where they have no account. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“The trouble with women is, that when they grow up, they turn into their mothers. The trouble with men is, that they… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
No man should have a secret from his wife. She invariably finds it out. — 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
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
It is a sad truth, but we have lost the faculty of giving lovely names to things. Names are everything. I never… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Humanity takes itself too seriously. It is the world's original sin. If the cave-man had known how to laugh, History would have… — 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
Each man lived his own life and paid his own price for living it. The only pity was one had to pay… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
'The Lady's World' should be made the recognized organ for the expression of women's opinions on all subjects of literature, art and… — 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
Disobedience, in the eyes of any one who has read history, is [hu]man's original virtue. It is through disobedience that progress has… — 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
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
Love does not traffic in a marketplace, nor use a huckster's scales. Its joy, like the joy of the intellect, is to… — 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
Miss Prism: ... And you do not seem to reealize, dear Doctor, that by persistently remaining single, a man coverts himself into… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Death is a great price to pay for a red rose“, cried the Nightingale, "and Life is very dear to all. “… — 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
Poets are not so scrupulous as you are. They know how useful passion is for publication. Nowadays a broken heart will run… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
It is only the superficial qualities that last. Man's deeper nature is soon found out. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Pleasure is Nature's test, her sign of approval. When man is happy, he is in harmony with himself and his environment. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Married men are horribly tedious when they are good husbands, and abominably conceited when they are not. — 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
Women have a much better time than men in this world; there are far more things forbidden to them. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
To have become a deeper man is the privilege of those who have suffered. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
The happiness of a married man depends on the people he has not married. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Then there was a man who said, 'I never knew what real happiness was until I got married; by then it was… — 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
And alien tears will fill for him pity's long broken urn. For his mourners will all be outcast men, and outcasts always… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
By the artificial separation of soul and body men have invented a Realism that is vulgar and an Idealism that is void. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Men marry because they are tired; women, because they are curious; both are disappointed. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
The man who says he has exhausted life generally means that life has exhausted him. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
If you cannot prove a man wrong, don't panic. You can always call him names. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Wherever there is a man who exercises authority, there is a man who resists authority. — 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
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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