“He opened it. Inside was a green paste, waxy in lustre, the odour curiously heavy and persistent.” — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“Well, I must say, Algernon, that I think it is high time that Mr. Bunbury made up his mind whether he was… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“But this murder--was it to dog him all his life? Was he always to be burdened by his past? Was he really” — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
I envy you going to Oxford: it is the most flower-like time of one's life. One sees the shadow of things in… — 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
“What was youth at best? A green, an unripe time, a time of shallow moods, and sickly thoughts.” — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“The moment I met you I saw that you were quite unconscious of what you really are, of what you really might… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
There is no man who is not, at each moment, what he has been and what he will be. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Thirty-five is a very attractive age. London society is full of women of the very highest birth who have, of their own… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
There is only one real tragedy in a woman's life. The fact that her past is always her lover, and her future… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
My experience is that as soon as people are old enough to know better, they don't know anything at all. — 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
If people are dishonest once, they will be dishonest a second time. And honest people should keep away from them. (Lady Chiltern) — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Death must be so beautiful. To lie in the soft brown earth, with the grasses waving above one's head, and listen to… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
He was always late on principle, his principle being that punctuality is the thief of time. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
There were times when it appeared to Dorian Gray that the whole of history was merely the record of his own life,… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
I've now realised for the first time in my life the vital Importance of Being Earnest. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
What seems to us as bitter trials are often blessings in disguise for which we are later, in the fullness of time… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
My life-my whole life- take it, and do with it what you will. I love you-love you as I have never loved… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
At every single moment of one's life one is what one is going to be no less than what one has been. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“Intellect is in itself an exaggeration, and destroys the harmony of any face. The moment one sits down to think, one becomes… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Science can never grapple with the irrational. That is why it has no future before it, in this world. — 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
