If there is anything more annoying in the world than having people talk about you, it is certainly having no one talk… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
I wanted to eat of the fruit of all the trees in the garden of the world… And so, indeed, I went… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
The first thing that struck me on landing in America was that if the Americans are not the most well-dressed people in… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
The world has grown suspicious of anything that looks like a happy married life. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
How strange a thing this is! The Priest telleth me that the Soul is worth all the gold in the world, and… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Thinking is the most unhealthy thing in the world, and people die of it just as they die of any other disease.… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
I like talking to a brick wall- it's the only thing in the world that never contradicts me! — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Missionaries are going to reform the world whether it wants to or not. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
I never approve, or disapprove, of anything now. It is an absurd attitude to take towards life. We are not sent into… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Men are such cowards. They outrage every law in the world and are afraid of the world's tongue. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
I must say to myself that I ruined myself, and that nobody great or small can be ruined except by his own… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
People say sometimes that Beauty is superficial. That may be so. But at least it is not so superficial as Thought is.… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Beauty is a form of Genius--is higher, indeed, than Genius, as it needs no explanation. It is one of the great facts… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Tell the cook of this restaurant with my compliments that these are the very worst sandwiches in the whole world, and that,… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
The nicest feeling in the world is to do a good deed anonymously-and have somebody find out. — 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
How sad it is!" murmured Dorian Gray with his eyes still fixed upon his own portrait. "How sad it is! I shall… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
There were times when it appeared to Dorian Gray that the whole of history was merely the record of his own life,… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
The world seemed to me fine because you were in it, and goodness more real because you lived. — 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
