There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written, or badly written. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“The Odyssey was written by Homer, or another Greek of the same name.” — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
I cannot choose one hundred best books because I have only written five — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
I dislike modern memoirs. They are generally written by people who have either entirely lost their memories, or have never done anything… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
It is only fair to state, with regard to modern journalists, that they always apologize to one in private for what they… — 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
Know thyself' was written over the portal of the antique world. Over the portal of the new world, 'Be thyself' shall be… — 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
