Ideals are dangerous things. Realities are better. They wound, but they're better. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
sorrow...is a wound that bleeds when any hand but that of love touches it — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Prosperity, pleasure and success, may be rough of grain and common in fibre, but sorrow is the most sensitive of all created… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
And her sweet red lips on these lips of mine Burned like the ruby fire set In the swinging lamp of a… — 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
