Love does not traffic in a marketplace, nor use a huckster's scales. Its joy, like the joy of the intellect, is to… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
The only form of lying that is absolutely beyond reproach is lying for its own sake. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
I don’t write this letter to put bitterness into your heart, but to pluck it out of mine. For my own sake… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
He would stab his best friend for the sake of writing an epigraph on his tombstone. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
It was a fatal day when the public discovered that the pen is mightier than the paving-stone, and can be made as… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
All art is immortal. For emotion for the sake of emotion is the aim of art, and emotion for the sake 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
