He to whom the present is the only thing that is present, knows nothing of the age in which he lives. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Literature must rest always on a principle, and temporal considerations are no principle at all. For, to the poet, all times and… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“Cyril: surely you would acknowledge that art expresses the temper of its age, the spirit of its time, the moral and social… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“second time you have made that observation. If one puts forward an idea to a true Englishman--always a rash thing to do--he… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“There was evidently no time to be lost, so, hastily adopting the Fourth dimension of Space as a means of escape, he… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“you met me, flattered me, and taught me to be vain of my good looks. One day you introduced me to a… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
A man's very highest moment is, I have no doubt at all, when he kneels in the dust, and beats his breast,… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
I like Wagner's music better than anybody's. It is so loud that one can talk the whole time without other people hearing… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
If you meet at dinner a man who has spent his life in educating himself - a rare type in our time… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“How English you are, Basil! That is the second time you have made that observation. If one puts forward an idea to… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“Yet, after some time, he wearied of them, and would sit in his box at the opera, either alone or with Lord… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“I have simply worshipped pianists - two at a time, sometimes, Harry tells me. I don't know what it is about them.… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“What is done is done. What is past is past." "You call yesterday the past?" "What has the actual lapse of time… — 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
When one pays a visit it is for the purpose of wasting other people's time, not one's own. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
What seems to us as bitter trials are often blessings in disguise [in the future. But only if we set out to… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
The fatal errors of life are not due to man's being unreasonable: an unreasonable moment may be one's finest moment. They are… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
I am always late on principle, my principle being that punctuality is the thief of time. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“When I say that I am convinced of these things I speak with too much pride. Far off, like a perfect pearl,… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“The past could always be annihilated. Regret, denial, or forgetfulness could do that.” — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
I prefer women with a past. They're always so damned amusing to talk to. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
In the old times men carried out their rights for themselves as they lived, but nowadays every baby seems born with a… — 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
