It is curious how vanity helps the successful man and wrecks the failure. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Anybody can sympathize with the sufferings of a friend, but it requires a very fine nature to sympathize with a friend's success. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Like dear St. Francis of Assisi I am wedded to Poverty: but in my case the marriage is not a success. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Anyone can sympathize with the sufferings of a friend, but it requires a very fine nature to sympathize with a friend's success. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“Prosperity, pleasure and success, may be rough of grain and common in fibre, but sorrow is the most sensitive of all created… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Many of the great achievements of the world were accomplished by tired and discouraged men who kept on working. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“Anybody can sympathise with the sufferings of a friend, but it requires a very fine nature to sympathise with a friend's success.” — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
On the whole, the great success of marriage in the States is due partly to the fact that no American man is… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
The Bostonians take their learning too sadly: culture with them is an accomplishment rather than an atmosphere; their "Hub," as they call… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“Frank Harris has no feelings. It is the secret of his success. Just as the fact that he thinks that other people… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“I think that in practical life there is something about success, actual success, that is a little unscrupulous, something about ambition that… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Anybody can sympathise with all the sufferings of the pal, nevertheless it involves an extremely great mother nature to sympathise by using… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“Look at the successful men in any of the learned professions. How perfectly hideous they are! Except, of course, in the Church.… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Prosperity, pleasure and success, may be rough of grain and common in fibre, but sorrow is the most sensitive of all created… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“Do you want to kill his love for you? What sort of existence will he have if you rob him of the… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“Phidias and the achievements of Greek art are foreshadowed in Homer: Dante prefigures for us the passion and colour and intensity of… — 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
Bachelors should be heavily taxed. It is not fair that some men should be happier than others — Oscar Wilde Copy Share
“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
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
“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
“Those who find beautiful meanings in beautiful things are the cultivated. For these there is hope.” — Oscar Wilde Copy Share
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
Why is it that at a bachelor's establishment the servants invariably drink the champagne. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share
Moderation is a fatal thing. Enough is as bad as a meal. More than enough is as good as a feast. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share
Beauty is the only thing that time cannot harm. Philosophies fall away like sand, creeds follow one another, but what is beautiful is a… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share
