Why is it that at a bachelor's establishment the servants invariably drink the champagne? I ask merely for information. I attribute it… — 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
An engagement should come on a young girl as a surprise, pleasant or unpleasant as the case may be. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
We have quite the same ideas. No; I think our ideas are quite different. But he has been most pleasant. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
In fact, now you mention the subject, I have been very bad in my own small way. I don't think you should… — 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
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
