“The whole of Japan is a pure invention. There is no such country, there are no such people.” — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Examinations, sir, are pure humbug from beginning to end. If a man is a gentleman, he knows quite enough, and if he… — 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
In fact, the whole of Japan is a pure invention. There is no such country, there are no such people… The Japanese… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
The sick do not ask if the hand that smoothes their pillow is pure, nor the dying care if the lips that… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
You shut out from your society the gentle and the good. You laugh at the simple and the pure. living, as you… — 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
