Many people become bankrupt through having invested too heavily in the prose of life. To have ruined one's self over poetry is… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
If one plays good music, people don't listen and if one plays bad music people don't talk. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
It is very vulgar to talk about one's own business. Only people like stockbrokers do that, and then only at dinner parties. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Most people die of a sort of creeping common sense, and discover when it is too late that the only things one… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
The moment that an artist takes notice of what other people want, and tries to supply the demand, he ceases to be… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
The more one analyses people, the more all reasons for analysis disappear. Sooner or later one comes to that dreadful universal thing… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live; it is asking others to live as one wishes to live. And unselfishness… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
There are three kinds of despots. There is the despot who tyrannizes over the body. There is the despot who tyrannizes over… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
In fact, the whole of Japan is a pure invention. There is no such country, there are no such people.... The Japanese… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Fashion is what one wears oneself. What is unfashionable is what other people wear. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Do not be afraid of the past. If people tell you that it is irrevocable, do not believe them. The past, the… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
That beauty which is meant by art is no mere accident of human life which people can take or leave, but a… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
I love hearing my relations abused. It is the only thing that makes me put up with them at all. Relations are… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
In England people actually try to be brilliant at breakfast. That is so dreadful of them! Only dull people are brilliant at… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Indeed I have always been of the opinion that hard work is simply the refuge of people who have nothing to do. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
I have always been of the opinion that hard work is simply the refuge of people who have nothing whatever to do. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Only people who look dull ever get into the House of Commons, and only people who are dull ever succeed there. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
I never came across anyone in whom the moral sense was dominant who was not heartless, cruel, vindictive, log-stupid, and entirely lacking… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Clergymen and people who use phrases without wisdom sometimes talk of suffering as a mystery. It is really a revelation. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
My dear boy, the people who love only once in their lives are really the shallow people. What they call their loyalty,… — 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
