I love talking about nothing. It is the only thing I know anything about. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Sin is a thing that writes itself across a man's face. It cannot be concealed. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
His style is chaos illumined by flashes of lightning. As a writer he has mastered everything except language. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
If you cannot write well, you cannot think well; if you cannot think well, others will do your thinking for you. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Actions are the first tragedy in life, words are the second. Words are perhaps the worst. Words are merciless. . . — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
I was working on the proof of one of my poems all the morning, and took out a comma. In the afternoon… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
I don’t write this letter to put bitterness into your heart, but to pluck it out of mine. For my own sake… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
In old days books were written by men of letters and read by the public. Nowadays books are written by the public… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Many people become bankrupt through having invested too heavily in the prose of life. To have ruined one's self over poetry is… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“Most people become bankrupt through having invested too heavily in the prose of life. To have ruined one's self over poetry is… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“I wish i could write them down, these little coloured parables or poems that live for a moment in some cell of… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
I wrote when I did not know life; now that I do know the meaning of life, I have no more to… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
The ancient historians gave us delightful fiction in the form of fact; the modern novelist presents us with dull facts under 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
