Private information is practically the source of every large modern fortune. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Rich bachelors should be heavily taxed. It is not fair that some men should be happier than others. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
The best work in literature is always done by those who do not depend on it for their daily bread and the… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Every man of ambition has to fight his century with its own weapons. What this century worships is wealth. The God of… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“They are more cunning than practical. When they make up their ledger, they balance stupidity by wealth, and vice by hypocrisy.” — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
The ugly and stupid have the best of it in this world. They can sit at their ease and gape at the… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
In England, an inventor is regarded almost as a crazy man, and in too many instances invention ends in disappointment and poverty.… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“Your rank and wealth, Harry; my brains, such as they are—my art, whatever it may be worth; Dorian Gray’s good looks—we shall… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“You have never been poor, and never known what ambition is. Wealth has given me enormous power. It gave me at the… — 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
