By persistently remaining single a man converts himself into a permanent public temptation. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Some temptations are so great it takes great courage to yield to them. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it. Resist it, and your soul grows sick with… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Work is the curse of the drinking class. I can resist everything except temptation. Moderation is a fatal thing - nothing succeeds… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Do you really think it is weakness that yields to temptation? I tell you that there are terrible temptations which it requires… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“The only way to get rid of temptation is to yield to it. Resist it, and your soul grows sick with longing… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“Do you really think ... that it is weakness that yields to temptation? I tell you that there are terrible temptations that… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it. Resist it, and your soul grows sick with… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
But we never get back our youth… The pulse of joy that beats in us at twenty becomes sluggish. Our limbs fail,… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“We are punished for our refusals. Every impulse that we strive to strangle broods in the mind and poisons us. The body… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
The only way to get rid of temptation is to yield to it... I can resist everything but temptation. — 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
Miss Prism: And you do not seem to realize, dear Doctor, that by persistently remaining single, a man converts himself into a… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Miss Prism: ... And you do not seem to reealize, dear Doctor, that by persistently remaining single, a man coverts himself into… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“But the bravest man amongst us is afraid of himself. The mutilation of the savage has its tragic survival in the self-denial… — 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
