There are three kinds of despots. There is the despot who tyrannizes over the body. There is the despot who tyrannizes over… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Love does not traffic in a marketplace, nor use a huckster's scales. Its joy, like the joy of the intellect, is to… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
The youth of America is their oldest tradition. It has been going on now for three hundred years. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
JACK That is nonsense. If I marry a charming girl like Gwendolen, and she is the only girl I ever saw in… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Miss Prism: Do not speak slightingly of the three-volume novel, Cecily. I wrote one myself in earlier days. Cecily: Did you really,… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
He rides in the row at ten o clock in the morning, goes to the Opera three times a week, changes his… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Oh, I don’t care about Jack. I don’t care for anybody in the whole world but you. I love you, Cecily. You… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
If it took Labouchere three columns to prove that I was forgotten, then there is no difference between fame and obscurity. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
To disagree with three-fourths of the British public is one of the first requisites of sanity. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Anybody can write a three-volume novel. It merely requires a complete ignorance of both life and literature. — 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
