“him. There was a horrible fascination in them all. He saw them at night, and they troubled his imagination in the day.… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
You and I will always be friends." "Yet you poisoned me with a book once. I should not forgive that. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“you poisoned me with a book once. I should not forgive that. Harry, promise me that you will never lend that book… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“The renaissance knew of strange manners of poisoning - poisoning by a helmet and by a lighted torch, by an embroidered glove… — 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
Why is it that at a bachelor's establishment the servants invariably drink the champagne. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Moderation is a fatal thing. Enough is as bad as a meal. More than enough is as good as a feast. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Beauty is the only thing that time cannot harm. Philosophies fall away like sand, creeds follow one another, but what is beautiful is a… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image