Words! Mere words! How terrible they were! How clear, and vivid, and cruel! One could not escape from them. And yet what… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
With subtle and finely-wrought temperaments it is always so. Their strong passions must either bruise or bend. They either slay the man,… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Life is a question of nerves, and fibres, and slowly built-up cells in which thought hides itself and passion has its dreams.… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Words! Mere words! How terrible they were! How clear, and vivid, and cruel! One could not escape from them. And yet what… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Men always want to be a woman’s first love. That is their clumsy vanity. We women have a more subtle instinct about… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
He had that curious love of green, which in individuals is always the sign of a subtle artistic temperament, and in nations… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Men always want to be a woman's first love. That is their clumsy vanity. We women have a more subtle instinct about… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
There was something terribly enthralling in the exercise of influence. No other activity was like it. To project one's soul into some… — 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
