I think you are wrong, Basil, but I won't argue with you. It is only the intellectually lost who ever argue. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Every one is worthy of love, except him who thinks that he is. Love is a sacrament that should be taken kneeling. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
One must have some sort of occupation nowadays. If I hadn't my debts I shouldn't have anything to think about. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
However, I think anything is better than high intellectual pressure. That is the most unbecoming thing there is. It makes the noses… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
The great things in life are what they seem to be. And for that reason, strange as it may sound to you,… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
They get up early, because they have so much to do, and go to bed early, because they have so little to… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Lord Darlington (LD): I think life too complex a thing to be settled by these hard and fast rules. Lady Windemere (LW):… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
I think life too complex a thing to be settled by these hard and fast rules. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
We think that we are generous because we credit our neighbor with those virtues that are likely to benefit ourselves. We praise… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
The moment one sits down to think, one becomes all nose, or all forehead, or something horrid — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Oh! I don't think I would like to catch a sensible man. I shouldn't know what to talk to him about. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
LORD ILLINGWORTH What do you think she'd do if I kissed her? MRS ALLONBY Either marry you, or strike you across the… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
But beauty, real beauty, ends where an intellectual expression begins. Intellect is in itself a mode of exaggeration, and destroys the harmony… — 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
Well, I can’t help going to see Sibyl play, even if it is only for an act. I get hungry for her… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“Is insincerity such a terrible thing? I think not. It is merely a method by which we can multiply our personalities. Such,” — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
There is no such thing as a good influence. Because to influence a person is to give him one's own soul. He… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
If you cannot write well, you cannot think well; if you cannot think well, others will do your thinking for you. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Thinking is the most unhealthy thing in the world, and people die of it just as they die of any other disease.… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Yes; poor Bunbury is a dreadful invalid. Well, I must say, Algernon, that I think it is high time that Mr. Bunbury… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Thinking is the most unhealthy thing in the world, and people die of it just as they die of any other disease.… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Really, this horrid House of Commons quite ruins our husbands for us. I think the Lower House by far the greatest blow… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
A method of procuring sensations? Do you think then, that a man who has once committed a murder could possibly do the… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Even now I cannot help feeling that it is a mistake to think that the passion one feels in creation is ever… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
We have quite the same ideas. No; I think our ideas are quite different. But he has been most pleasant. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Now and then the fantastic shadows of birds in flight flitted across the long tussore-silk curtains that were stretched in front of… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
We live in an age that reads too much to be wise, and that thinks too much to be beautiful. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
When a man does exactly what a woman expects him to do she doesn't think much of him. One should always do… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
It is a sad thing to think of, but there is no doubt that genius lasts longer than beauty. That accounts for… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
A man who does not think for himself does not think at all. It is grossly selfish to require of one's neighbour… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
In fact, now you mention the subject, I have been very bad in my own small way. I don't think you should… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
The great events of life often leave one unmoved; they pass out of consciousness, and, when thinks of them, become unreal. Even… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
He thinks like a Tory, and talks like a Radical, and that's so important nowadays. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
I usually say what I really think. A great mistake nowadays. It makes one so liable to be misunderstood. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Nowadays, saying what you really think can be a serious error since one risks being misunderstood. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
It is perfectly possible to get what you think you want and be miserable. It's possible too, to never get it but… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
As a rule, I think they are quite impossible. Geniuses talk so much, don't they? Such a bad habit! And they are… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
All thought is immoral. Its very essence is destruction. If you think of anything, you kill it. Nothing survives being thought of. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
You are more to me than any of them has any idea; you are the atmosphere of beauty through which I see… — 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
