Religion is like a blind man looking in a black room for a black cat that isn't there, and finding it. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Life is a question of nerves, and fibres, and slowly built-up cells in which thought hides itself and passion has its dreams.… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
What a silly thing love is!' said the student as he walked away. 'It is not half as useful as logic, for… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Youth! There is nothing like youth. The middle-aged are mortgaged to Life. The old are in Life's lumber-room. But youth is the… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
You can hardly imagine that I and Lord Bracknell would dream of allowing our only daughter - a girl brought up with… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
It would leave no room for developments and I intend to develop in many directions. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
We quaff the cup of life with eager haste without draining it, instead of which it only overflows the brim - objects… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
The bright dawn flooded the room, and swept the fantastic shadows into dusky corners, where they lay shuddering. — 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
