Work Art Quotes by Oscar Wilde

How else but through a broken heart may Lord Christ enter in?

— Oscar Wilde

The books that the world calls immoral are the books that show the world its own shame.

— Oscar Wilde

Bachelors should be heavily taxed. It is not fair that some men should be happier than others

— Oscar Wilde

Who, being loved, is poor?

— Oscar Wilde

“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

Anybody can be good in the country

— Oscar Wilde

I don't at all like knowing what people say of me behind my back. It makes me far too conceited.

— Oscar Wilde

“Alles Populäre ist falsch.”

— Oscar Wilde

“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

To love one's self is the beginning of a life-long romance

— Oscar Wilde

“Those who find beautiful meanings in beautiful things are the cultivated. For these there is hope.”

— Oscar Wilde

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

Why is it that at a bachelor's establishment the servants invariably drink the champagne.

— Oscar Wilde

Moderation is a fatal thing. Enough is as bad as a meal. More than enough is as good as a feast.

— Oscar Wilde

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