Many of the great achievements of the world were accomplished by tired and discouraged men who kept on working. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Beauty has as many meanings as man has moods. Beauty is the symbol of symbols. Beauty reveals everything, because it expresses nothing.… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
To be popular one must be a mediocrity." "Not with Women," said the duchess, shaking her head; "and women rule the world.… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Art is the most intense mode of individualism that the world has known. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Romance should never begin with sentiment. It should begin with science and end with a settlement. Nothing spoils romance so much as… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Sympathy with joy intensifies the sum of sympathy in the world, sympathy with pain does not really diminish the amount of pain. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Behind joy and laughter there may be a temperament, coarse, hard and callous. But behind sorrow there is always sorrow. Pain, unlike… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Any place you love is the world to you”, explained the pensive Catherine Wheel, who had been attached to an old deal… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Women have a much better time than men in this world; there are far more things forbidden to them. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Actors are so fortunate. They can choose whether they will appear in tragedy or in comedy, whether they will suffer or make… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
The fact is, that civilization requires slaves. Human slavery is wrong, insecure, and demoralizing. On mechanical slavery, on the slavery of the… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Beauty ...is of the great facts in the world like sunlight, or springtime, or the reflection in dark water of that silver… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
I forget what killed it. I think it was her proposing to sacrifice the whole world for me. That is always a… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
It is love, and not German philosophy, that is the true explanation of the world, whatever may be the explanation of the… — 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
