There is something tragic about the enormous number of young men there are in England at the present moment who start life… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
I hope to-morrow will be a fine day, Lane. It never is, sir. Lane, you're a perfect pessimist. I do my best… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Palermo was lovely. The most beautifully situated town in the world - it dreams away its life in the Conca d'Oro, the… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
I don't know how to talk. Oh! talk to every woman as if you loved her, and to every man as if… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
It is that deep spiritual affection that is as pure as it is perfect. It is beautiful, it is fine, it is… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Only mediocrities progress. An artist revolves in a cycle of masterpieces, the first of which is no less perfect than the last. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
My sweet rose, my delicate flower, my lily of lilies, it is perhaps in prison that I am going to test the… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
You must have a cigarette. A cigarette is the perfect type of a perfect pleasure. It is exquisite, and it leaves one… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
A beautiful woman risking everything for a mad passion. A few wild weeks of happiness cut short by a hideous, treacherous crime.… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
The morality of art consists in the perfect use of an imperfect medium. — 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
