One must have a heart of stone to read the death of little Nell without laughing. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Wordsworth went to the Lakes, but he was never a lake poet. He found in stones the sermons he had already hidden… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
The most terrible thing about it is not that it breaks one’s heart—hearts are made to be broken—but that it turns one’s… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
It was a fatal day when the public discovered that the pen is mightier than the paving-stone and can be made as… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
one pale woman all alone, The daylight kissing her wan hair, Loitered beneath the gas lamps' flare, With lips of flame and… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
And thus we rust Life's iron chain Degraded and alone: And some men curse, and some men weep, And some men make… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
I envy you going to Oxford: it is the most flower-like time of one's life. One sees the shadow of things in… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
It was a fatal day when the public discovered that the pen is mightier than the paving-stone, and can be made as… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Requiescat Tread lightly, she is near Under the snow, Speak gently, she can hear The daisies grow. All her bright golden hair… — 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
