When the gods wish to punish us, they answer our prayers. My prayer was to be immortalized by unintelligent gibbons on a… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Come down, O Christ, and help me! reach thy hand, For I am drowning in a stormier sea Than Simon on thy… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“Not "Forgive us for our sins" but "Smite us for our iniquities" should be the prayer of man to a most just… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“confession. Now that I have made it, something seems to have gone out of me. Perhaps one should never put one’s worship… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
When a golden girl can win Prayer from out the lips of sin, When the barren almond bears, And a little child… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
The Lord's Prayer is 66 words, the Gettysburg Address is 286 words, there are 1.322 words in the Declaration of Independence, but… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
There was purification in punishment. Not 'Forgive us our sins,' but 'Smite us for our iniquities' should be the prayer of a… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“It is rarely in the world's history that its ideal has been one of joy and beauty. The worship of pain has… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“you met me, flattered me, and taught me to be vain of my good looks. One day you introduced me to a… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
If God wished to punish us, all he would need to do would be to answer our prayers. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“There is nothing sane about the worship of beauty. It is too splendid to be sane. Those of whose lives it forms… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Prayer must never be answered: if it is, it ceases to be prayer and becomes correspondence. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“Robert, men can love what is beneath them—things unworthy, stained, dishonoured. We women worship when we love; and when we lose our… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“We did not dare to breathe a prayer, Or give our anguish scope. Something was dead within each of us, And what… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
In a temple everything should be serious except the thing that is being worshiped. — 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
