I am sorry my life is so marred and maimed by extravagance. But I cannot live otherwise. I, at any rate, pay… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Life! Life! Don't let us go to life for our fulfilment or our experience. Life makes us pay too high a price… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Nowadays we are all of us so hard up that the only pleasant things to pay are compliments. They’re the only things… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Mothers, of course, are all right. They pay a chap's bills and don't bother him. But fathers bother a chap and never… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery that mediocrity can pay to greatness. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
When one pays a visit it is for the purpose of wasting other people's time, not one's own. — 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
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 is no good talking to him," said a Dragon-fly, who was sitting on the top of a large brown bulrush; "no… — 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
