“What odd chaps you painters are! You do anything in the world to gain a reputation. As soon as you have one,… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
I don't know how to talk. Oh! talk to every woman as if you loved her, and to every man as if… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
One can survive everything nowadays, except death, and live down anything, except a good reputation. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
With an evening coat and a white tie, anybody, even a stockbroker, can gain a reputation for being civilized — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
One can survive everything, nowadays, except death, and live down everything except a good reputation. — 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
