“We are punished for our refusals. Every impulse that we strive to strangle broods in the mind and poisons us. The body… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
What consoles one nowadays is not repentance but pleasure. Repentance is quite out of date. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
The past could always be annihilated. Regret, denial, or forgetfulness could do that. But the future was inevitable. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
The worst of it is that I am perpetually being punished for nothing; this governor loves to punish, and he punishes by… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
I don’t regret for a single moment having lived for pleasure. I did it to the full, as one should do everything… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Believe me, no civilized man ever regrets a pleasure, and no uncivilized man ever knows what a pleasure is. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
The body sins once, and has done with its sin, for action is a mode of purification. Nothing remains then but the… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“The past could always be annihilated; regret, denial, or forgetfulness could do that. But the future was inevitable. There were passions in… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“Out of the unreal shadows of the night comes back the real life that we had known. We have to resume it… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“But the bravest man amongst us is afraid of himself. The mutilation of the savage has its tragic survival in the self-denial… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“The past could always be annihilated. Regret, denial, or forgetfulness could do that.” — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Never regret thy fall, O Icarus of the fearless flight For the greatest tragedy of them all Is never to feel the… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
But then one regrets the loss even of one's worst habits. Perhaps one regrets them the most. They are such an essential… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“The body sins once, and has done with its sin, for action is a mode of purification. Nothing remains then but the… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
It is chiefly, I regret to say, through journalism that such people find expression. I regret it because there is much to… — 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
