Your machinery is beautiful. Your society people have apologized to me for the envious ridicule with which your newspapers have referred to… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
I should have remembered that when one is going to lead an entirely new life, one requires regular and wholesome meals. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Conversation should touch everything, but should concentrate itself on nothing. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
It is a pity to make a mystery out of what should most easily be understood. There is nothing occult about the… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
He is some brainless, beautiful creature, who should always be here in winter when we have no flowers to look at, and… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Do you smoke? Well, yes, I must admit I smoke. I'm glad to hear of it. A man should always have an… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Unless one is wealthy there is no use in being a charming fellow. Romance is the privilege of the rich, not the… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
All sins, except a sin against itself, Love should forgive. All lives, save loveless lives, true Love should pardon. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Don't give a woman advice; one should never give a woman anything she can't wear in the evening. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
While one should always study the method of a great artist, one should never imitate his manner. The manner of an artist… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Romance should never begin with sentiment. It should begin with science and end with a settlement. Nothing spoils romance so much as… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
I hate vulgar realism in literature. The man who would call a spade a spade should be compelled to use one. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Now, nothing should be able to harm a man except himself. Nothing should be able to rob a man at all. What… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
One's past is what one is. It is the only way by which people should be judged. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Muffins should always be eaten quite calmly, as it is the only way to eat them! — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
There is no good talking to him," said a Dragon-fly, who was sitting on the top of a large brown bulrush; "no… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
How you can sit there, calmly eating muffins when we are in this horrible trouble, I can’t make out. You seem to… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
If we men married the women we deserved, we should have a very bad time of it. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
The proper basis for marriage is mutual misunderstanding. The happiness of a married man depends on the people he has not married.… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Schools should be the most beautiful place in every town and village-so beautiful that the punishment for undutiful children should be barred… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
I did not think I should be ever loved: do you indeed Love me so much as now you say you do?… — 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
