There were moments when he looked on evil simply as a mode through which he could realize his conception of the beautiful. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“The only difference between saints and sinners is that every saint has a past while every sinner has a 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
Science can never grapple with the irrational. That is why it has no future before it, in this world. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
To stake all one's life on a single moment, to risk everything on one throw, whether the stake be power or pleasure,… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“One hardly knew at times whether one was reading the spiritual ecstasies of some mediaeval saint or the morbid confessions of a… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Oh, why will parents always appear at the wrong time? Some extraordinary mistake in nature, I suppose. — 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
“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
For a year after that was done to me I wept every day at the same hour and for the same space… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Just as the philanthropist is the nuisance of the ethical sphere, so the nuisance of the intellectual sphere is the man who… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“I turned halfway round, and saw Dorian Gray for the first time. When our eyes met, I felt that I was growing… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
As one knows the poet by his fine music, so one can recognize the liar by his rich rhythmic utterance, and in… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
There are moments when one has to choose between living one's own life, fully, entirely, completely-or dragging out some false, shallow, degrading… — 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
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
The past could always be annihilated. Regret, denial, or forgetfulness could do that. But the future was inevitable. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
We who live in prison, and in whose lives there is no event but sorrow, have to measure time by throbs of… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“each time that one loves is the only time one has ever loved. difference of object does not alter singleness of passion.… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
The only difference between the saint and the sinner is that every saint has a past, and every sinner has a future. — 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
American girls are as clever at concealing their parents as English women are at concealing their past. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“valet had reminded him several times of the lateness of the hour, he got up, and going into the next room, placed… — 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
The one charm about the past is that it is the past. But women never know when the curtain has fallen. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“It is always painful to part from people whom one has known for a very brief space of time. The absence of… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“What does the actual lapse of time got to do with it? It is only shallow people who require years to get… — 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
Beauty is the only thing that time cannot harm. Philosophies fall away like sand, and creeds follow one another like the withered… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“I wish i could write them down, these little coloured parables or poems that live for a moment in some cell of… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Do not be afraid of the past. If people tell you that it is irrevocable, do not believe them. The past, the… — 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
“A strange sense of loss came over him. He felt that Dorian Gray would never again be to him all that he… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Every one of course represents the spirit of his age, but there is an eternal aspect of the Spirit of every age… — 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
There is something tragic about the enormous number of young men there are in England at the present moment who start life… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“Yes, death. Death must be so beautiful. To lie in the soft brown earth, with the grasses waving above one's head, and… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“Each time that one loves is the only time one has ever loved. Difference of object does not alter singleness of passion.… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“The past could always be annihilated; regret, denial, or forgetfulness could do that. But the future was inevitable. There were passions in… — 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
Bachelors should be heavily taxed. It is not fair that some men should be happier than others — Oscar Wilde Copy Share
“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
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
“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
“Those who find beautiful meanings in beautiful things are the cultivated. For these there is hope.” — Oscar Wilde Copy Share
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
Why is it that at a bachelor's establishment the servants invariably drink the champagne. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share
Moderation is a fatal thing. Enough is as bad as a meal. More than enough is as good as a feast. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share
Beauty is the only thing that time cannot harm. Philosophies fall away like sand, creeds follow one another, but what is beautiful is a… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share
