The books that the world calls immoral are the books that show the world its own shame. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“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
It is in the brain, and the brain only, that the great sins of the world take place also. You, Mr. Gray,… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
After the first glass, you see things as you wish they were. After the second, you see things as they are not.… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
There is no country in the world where machinery is so lovely as in America. It was not until I had seen… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Society exists only as a mental concept; in the real world there are only individuals. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Any map of the world that does not include Utopia is not even worth glancing at. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Now it seems to me that love of some kind is the only possible explanation of the extraordinary amount of suffering that… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
There are moments when one has to choose between living one's own life, fully, entirely, completely-or dragging out some false, shallow, degrading… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
To do nothing at all is the most difficult thing in the world, the most difficult and the most intellectual. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Popularity is the crown of laurel which the world puts on bad art. Whatever is popular is wrong. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
The world is changed because you are made of ivory and gold. The curves of your lips rewrite history. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Now it seems to me that love of some kind is the only possible explanation of the extraordinary amount of suffering that… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Poets are not so scrupulous as you are. They know how useful passion is for publication. Nowadays a broken heart will run… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Humanity takes itself too seriously. It is the world's original sin. If the cave-man had known how to laugh, History would have… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Set in this stormy Northern sea, Queen of these restless fields of tide, England! what shall men say of thee, Before whose… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
In the common world of fact the wicked were not punished, nor the good rewarded. Success was given to the strong, failure… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
'The Lady's World' should be made the recognized organ for the expression of women's opinions on all subjects of literature, art and… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Art is the only serious thing in the world. And the artist is the only person who is never serious. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
A map of the world that does not include Utopia is not worth even glancing at, for it leaves out the one… — 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
