Conscience and cowardice are really the same things, Basil. Conscience is the trade-name of the firm. That is all. — 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
It is a sad truth, but we have lost the faculty of giving lovely names to things. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Thin-lipped wisdom spoke at her from the worn chair, hinted at prudence, quoted from that book of cowardice whose author apes the… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
As it was, we always misunderstood ourselves and rarely understood others. Experience was of no ethical value. It was merely the name… — 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
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
When I like people immensely I never tell their names to anyone. It is like surrendering a part of them. I have… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
You have always told me it was Ernest. I have introduced you to every one as Ernest. You answer to the name… — 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
The only way to even approach doing something perfectly is through experience, and experience is the name everyone gives to their mistakes. — 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
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
