Good taste is the excuse I've always given for leading such a bad life — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Absolute catholicity of taste is not without its dangers. It is only an auctioneer who should admire all schools of art. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
In art, the public accept what has been, because they cannot alter it, not because they appreciate it. They swallow their classics… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
The public has always, and in every age, been badly brought up. They are continually asking Art to be popular, to please… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
A virtuous abstinence from the joys of pederasty comes most easily to those who have no taste for it. — 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
