Newspapers. . . give us the bald, sordid, disgusting facts of life. They chronicle, with degrading avidity, the sins of the second-rate,… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
To be born, or at any rate bred, in a hand-bag, whether it had handles or not, seems to me to display… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Thinking is the most unhealthy thing in the world, and people die of it just as they die of any other disease.… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
The liar at any rate recognizes that recreation, not instruction, is the aim of conversation, and is a far more civilized being… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Perhaps there may come into my art also, no less than into my life, a still deeper note, one of greater unity… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
I do not approve of anything that tampers with natural ignorance. Ignorance is like a delicate exotic fruit; touch it and the… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
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
The only artists I have ever known who are personally delightful are bad artists. Good artists exist simply in what they make,… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
I am sorry my life is so marred and maimed by extravagance. But I cannot live otherwise. I, at any rate, pay… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
The English mind is always in a rage. The intellect of the race is wasted in the sordid and stupid quarrels of… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
What we have to do, what at any rate it is our duty to do, is to revive the old art of… — 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
