“There never has been an artistic age, or an artistic people, since the beginning of the world. The artist has always been,… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
In examinations the foolish ask questions that the wise cannot answer. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Clergymen and people who use phrases without wisdom sometimes talk of suffering as a mystery. It is really a revelation. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Until this moment, I never understood how hard it was to lose something you never had. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Thin-lipped wisdom spoke at her from the worn chair, hinted at prudence, quoted from that book of cowardice whose author apes the… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
The answers are all out there, we just need to ask the right questions. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“The method by which the fool arrives at his folly was as dear to him as the ultimate wisdom of the wise.” — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“For the recognition of private property has really harmed Individualism, and obscured it, by confusing a man with what he possesses.” — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
God grant me the serenity to accept that people are ignorant, the courage to uphold the law when I'm hostile, & the… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
To look wise is quite as good as understanding a thing, and very much easier. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
We live in an age that reads too much to be wise, and that thinks too much to be beautiful. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
The public have an insatiable curiosity to know everything, except what is worth knowing. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
The well bred contradict other people. The wise contradict themselves. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Wisdom is to have dreams big enough not to lose sight when we pursue them. — 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
