The birds did not understand a single word of what he was saying, but that made no matter, for they put their… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
In examinations the foolish ask questions that the wise cannot answer. — 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
As for omens, there is no such thing as an omen. Destiny does not send us heralds. She is too wise or… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Ah, on what little things does happiness depend! I have read all that the wise men have written, and all the secrets… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Love will fly if held too lightly Love will die if held too tightly . . . — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
My sweet rose, my delicate flower, my lily of lilies, it is perhaps in prison that I am going to test 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
Be happy, be happy; you shall have your red rose. I will build it out of music by moonlight, and stain it… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
It is not wise to find symbols in everything that one sees. It makes life too full of terrors. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
The well bred contradict other people. The wise contradict themselves. — 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
