Art is the only serious thing in the world. And the artist is the only person who is never serious. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
In England ... education produces no effect whatsoever. If it did, it would prove a serious danger to the upper classes, and… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Well, one must be serious about something, if one wants to have any amusement in life. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
I do not approve of anything that tampers with natural ignorance. Ignorance is like a delicate exotic fruit; touch it and the… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
We should treat all the trivial things of life seriously, and all the serious things of life with sincere and studied triviality. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
The intellect is not a serious thing, and never has been. It is an instrument on which one plays, that is all. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
I love scrapes. They are the only things that are never serious." "Oh, that's nonsense, Algy. You never talk anything but nonsense."… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
This ghastly state of things is what you call Bunburying, I suppose? Algernon. Yes, and a perfectly wonderful Bunbury it is. The… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
In England it is enough for a man to try and produce any serious, beautiful work to lose all his rights as… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
The Ideal Man should talk to us as if we were goddesses, and treat us as if we were children. He should… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Nowadays, saying what you really think can be a serious error since one risks being misunderstood. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Indeed, so far from being humorous, the male American is the most abnormally serious creature who ever existed.. It is only fair… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
London is too full of fogs and serious people. Whether the fogs produce the serious people, or whether the serious people produce… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
I hate people who are not serious about meals. It is so shallow of them. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
In a temple everything should be serious except the thing that is being worshiped. — 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
