My friend is not allowed to go out today. I sit by his side and read him passages from his own life.… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
I never travel without my diary. One should always have something sensational to read in the train. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
One should always eat muffins quite calmly. It is the only way to eat them. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
There was purification in punishment. Not 'Forgive us our sins,' but 'Smite us for our iniquities' should be the prayer of a… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Art should never try to be popular. The public should try to make itself artistic. — 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
Absolute catholicity of taste is not without its dangers. It is only an auctioneer who should admire all schools of art. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
If people are dishonest once, they will be dishonest a second time. And honest people should keep away from them. (Lady Chiltern) — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
One should not be too severe on English novels; they are the only relaxation of the intellectually unemployed. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
When a man is old enough to do wrong he should be old enough to do right also. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
The ugly and stupid have the best of it in this world. They can sit at their ease and gape at the… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
I find that forgiving one's enemies is a most curious morbid pleasure; perhaps I should check it. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
When a man does exactly what a woman expects him to do she doesn't think much of him. One should always do… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
No publisher should ever express an opinion on the value of what he publishes. That is a matter entirely for the literary… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
A man who does not think for himself does not think at all. It is grossly selfish to require of one's neighbour… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
In fact, now you mention the subject, I have been very bad in my own small way. I don't think you should… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
It is a sad truth, but we have lost the faculty of giving lovely names to things. Names are everything. I never… — 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
Oh, I love London Society! It is entirely composed now of beautiful idiots and brilliant lunatics. Just what Society should be. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
An artist should create beautiful things, but should put nothing of his own life into them. — 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
