“Indeed, in many respects, she was quite English, and was an excellent example of the fact that we have really everything in… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“Few parents nowadays pay any regard to what their children say to them. The old-fashioned respect for the young is fast dying… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Public Opinion... an attempt to organize the ignorance of the community, and to elevate it to the dignity of physical force. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“The security of society lies in custom and unconscious instinct, and the basis of the stability of society, as a healthy organism,… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Few parents nowadays pay any regard to what their children say to them. The old fashioned respect for the young is fast… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
When one has never heard a man's name in the course of one's life, it speaks volumes for him; he must be… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
The Americans are identical to the British in all respects except, of course, language. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“The rich would have spoken on the value of thrift and the idle grown eloquent over the dignity of labour.” — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
The youth of the present day are quite monstrous. They have absolutely no respect for dyed hair. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Each class preaches the importance of those virtues it need not exercise. The rich harp on the value of thrift, the idle… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
There are moments when art attains almost to the dignity of manual labor. — 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
