The past is of no importance. The present is of no importance. It is with the future that we have to deal.… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
I have always been of opinion that a man who desires to get married should know either everything or nothing. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
I am jealous of everything whose beauty does not die. I am jealous of the portrait you have painted of me. Why… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Romance should never begin with sentiment. It should begin with science and end with a settlement. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Rich bachelors should be heavily taxed. It is not fair that some men should be happier than others. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Murder is always a mistake. One should never do anything that one cannot talk about after dinner. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Every one is worthy of love, except him who thinks that he is. Love is a sacrament that should be taken kneeling. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Pleasure is the only thing one should live for, nothing ages like happiness. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Do not be afraid of the past. If people tell you that it is irrevocable, do not believe them. The past, the… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Women have become so highly educated... that nothing should surprise us nowadays, except happy marriages. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
If a friend of mine gave a feast, and did not invite me to it, I should not mind a bit. but… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Fathers should be neither seen nor heard. That is the only proper basis for family life. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Poets are not so scrupulous as you are. They know how useful passion is for publication. Nowadays a broken heart will run… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Children have a natural antipathy to books- handicraft should be the basis of education. Boys and girls should be taught to use… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
An artist should create beautiful things, but should put nothing of his own life into them. We live in an age when… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
When I see a spade, I call it a spade. I'm glad to say I have never seen a spade. The man… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
No man should have a secret from his wife. She invariably finds it out. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
One should never make one's entrance with a scandal. One should reserve that to give an interest to one's old age. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
You and I will always be friends." "Yet you poisoned me with a book once. I should not forgive that. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Our ambition should be to rule ourselves, the true kingdom for each one of us; and true progress is to know more,… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
To be really mediæval one should have no body. To be really modern one should have no soul. To be really Greek… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
One should never listen. To listen is a sign of indifference to one's hearers. — 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
