Arguments are extremely vulgar, for everybody in good society holds exactly the same opinions. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
He is really not so ugly after all, provided, of course, that one shuts one's eyes, and does not look at him. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Whenever cannibals are on the brink of starvation, Heaven, in its infinite mercy, sends them a fat missionary. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Really, if the lower orders don't set a good example, what on earth is the use of them? — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
I never play cricket. It requires one to assume such indecent postures. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
The youth of America is their oldest tradition. It has been going on now for three hundred years. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Women have a wonderful instinct about things. They can discover everything except the obvious. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Musical people always want one to be perfectly dumb at the very moment when one is longing to be perfectly deaf. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Tell the cook of this restaurant with my compliments that these are the very worst sandwiches in the whole world, and that,… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
I always like to know everything about my new friends, and nothing about my old ones. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
To disagree with three-fourths of the British public is one of the first requisites of sanity. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Women represent the triumph of matter over mind, just as men represent the triumph of mind over morals. — 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