If art is to have a special train, the critic must keep some seats reserved on it. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
I never travel without my diary. One should always have something sensational to read in the train. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Come, dear, [Gwendolen rises] we have already missed five, if not six, trains. To miss any more might expose us to comment… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Life cheats us with shadows. We ask it for pleasure. It gives it to us with bitterness and disappointment in its train. — 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