Quote by Oscar Wilde Download Open image ““The Duchess of Padua. by Oscar Wilde”” — Oscar Wilde ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.0 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare
“Learned some things in my life, Duchess, one of the most important, you find a good woman, you take care of her.” — Kristen Ashley Copy Share Image
“Oscar Wilde was born in Dublin, on the 15th October, 1856, so that he is now about twenty-six years of age, but brief as… — Walter Hamilton Copy Share Image
“I am agreed, and would I had given him the best horse in Padua to begin his wooing that would thoroughly woo her, wed… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
“Wanderess, Wanderess, weave us a story of seduction and ruse. Heroic be the Wanderess, the world be her muse.” — Roman Payne Copy Share Image
“The duchess of Retz, who was fluent in Latin and Greek (languages she had acquired as a result of her first husband’s frustrating lack… — Nancy Goldstone Copy Share Image
“She was his heart, his other half. She filled all the empty places in his soul that he had desperately tried to paper over… — Eloisa James Copy Share Image
“Tut, tut, child!" said the Duchess. "Everything's got a moral, if only you can find it.” — Lewis Carroll Copy Share Image
“Orlando was unaccountably disappointed. She had thought of literature all these years (her seclusion, her rank, her sex must be her excuse) as something… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“came trotting along in a great hurry, muttering to himself as he came, 'Oh! the Duchess, the Duchess!” — Lewis Carroll Copy Share Image
“Each one, in my impassioned interior conversations, granted me some aspect of my most dearly held, most fiercely hidden heart’s desires. Life, art, motherhood.… — Claire Messud 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
