What the worm was to the corpse, his sins would be to the painted image on the canvas. They would mar its… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Niagara Falls is simply a vast unnecessary amount of water going over the wrong way and then falling over unnecessary cliffs...The wonder… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Children have a natural antipathy to books- handicraft should be the basis of education. Boys and girls should be taught to use… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Knowledge would be fatal. It is the uncertainty that charms one. A mist makes things wonderful. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
The worst of it is that I am perpetually being punished for nothing; this governor loves to punish, and he punishes by… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
The truth is rarely pure and never simple. Modern life would be very tedious if it were either, and modern literature a… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Experience was of no ethical value. It was merely the name men gave to their mistakes. Moralists had, as a rule, regarded… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
There should be a law that no ordinary newspaper should be allowed to write about art. The harm they do by their… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Agitators are a set of interfering, meddling people, who come down to some perfectly contented class of the community and sow the… — 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
If God wished to punish us, all he would need to do would be to answer our prayers. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
No publisher should ever express an opinion on the value of what he publishes. That is a matter entirely for the literary… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Even men of the noblest possible moral character are extremely susceptible to the influence of the physical charms of others. Modern, no… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
A red rose is not selfish because it wants to be a red rose. It would be horribly selfish if it wanted… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
There was so much in you that charmed me that I felt I must tell you something about yourself. I thought how… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
I hope you have not been leading a double life, pretending to be wicked and being good all the time. That would… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
If the poor only had profiles there would be no difficulty in solving the problem of poverty — 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
