There is no such thing as a good influence. Because to influence a person is to give him one's own soul. He… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
The body sins once, and has done with its sin, for action is a mode of purification. Nothing remains then but the… — 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
There were times when it appeared to Dorian Gray that the whole of history was merely the record of his own life,… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
You will always be fond of me. I represent to you all the sins you have never had the courage to commit. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Through our sunless lanes creeps Poverty with her hungry eyes, and Sin with his sodden face follows close behind her. Misery wakes… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
A man's very highest moment is, I have no doubt at all, when he kneels in the dust, and beats his breast,… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Ah! happy day they whose hearts can break And peace of pardon win! How else may man make straight his plan And… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Sin is a thing that writes itself across a man's face. It cannot be concealed. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
We become lovers when we see Romeo and Juliet, and Hamlet makes us students. The blood of Duncan is upon our hands,… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Sin is a thing that writes itself across a man's face. It cannot be concealed. People talk sometimes of secret vices, there… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
There are moments, psychologists tell us, when the passion for sin, or what the world calls sin, so dominates a nature, that… — 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
After playing Chopin, I feel as if I had been weeping over sins that I had never committed, and mourning over tragedies… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
The sick do not ask if the hand that smoothes their pillow is pure, nor the dying care if the lips that… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Nothing makes one so vain as being told one is a sinner. Conscience makes egotists of us all. — 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
