Without order nothing can exist-without chaos nothing can evolve. Nowadays people know the price of everything and the value of nothing. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
I like Wagner's music better than anybody's. It is so loud that one can talk the whole time without other people hearing… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
The public have an insatiable curiosity to know everything, except what is worth knowing. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Philanthropic people lose all sense of humanity. It is their distinguishing characteristic. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Good intentions have been the ruin of the world. The only people who have achieved anything have been those who have had… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
The reason we are so pleased to find other people's secrets is that it distracts public attention from our own. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
The world has become sad because a puppet was once melancholy. The nihilist, that strange martyr who has no faith, who goes… — 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
People fashion their God after their own understanding. They make their God first and worship him afterwards. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
People sometimes inquire what form of government is most suitable for an artist to live under. To this question there is only… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Philanthropy [has become] simply the refuge of people who wish to annoy their fellow creatures. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Your machinery is beautiful. Your society people have apologized to me for the envious ridicule with which your newspapers have referred to… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
If we're always guided by other people's thoughts, what's the point in having our own? — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Fashion is what one wears oneself. What is unfashionable is what other people wear. Just as vulgarity is simply the conduct of… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Pray don't talk to me about the weather, Mr. Worthing. Whenever people talk to me about the weather, I always feel quite… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
I am not in favour of this modern mania for turning bad people into good people at a moment's notice. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
London is too full of fogs and serious people. Whether the fogs produce the serious people, or whether the serious people produce… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
The mask that people wear in society are always more interesting than the person hidden behind it. — 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
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