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out of sorrow have the worlds been built, and at the birth of a child or a star, there is pain By Oscar Wilde
We who live in prison, and in whose lives there is no event but sorrow, have to measure time by throbs of pain, and the record of bitter moments. By Oscar Wilde
Better the rule of One, whom all obey, than to let clamorous demagogues betray our freedom with the kiss of anarchy. By Oscar Wilde
No object is so beautiful that, under certain conditions, it will not look ugly. By Oscar Wilde
As he thought of it, a sharp pang of pain struck through him like a knife and made each delicate fibre of his nature quiver. By Oscar Wilde
A community is infinitely more brutalised by the habitual employment of punishment than it is by the occasional occurence of crime. By Oscar Wilde
He must have a truly romantic nature, for he weeps when there is nothing at all to weep about. By Oscar Wilde
The value of an idea has nothing to do with the honesty of the man expressing it. By Oscar Wilde
And suddenly the moon withdraws her sickle from the lightening skies, and to her sombre cavern flies, wrapped in a veil of yellow gauze. By Oscar Wilde
Laughter is not at all a bad beginning for a friendship, and it is far the best ending for one. By Oscar Wilde
Every day. I couldn't be happy if I didn't see him every day. He is absolutely necessary to me. By Oscar Wilde
This woman is a genius in the day time and a beauty at night By Oscar Wilde
Full frontal nudity is reserved for Adam and Eve! By Oscar Wilde
Musical people always want one to be perfectly dumb at the very moment when one is longing to be perfectly deaf. By Oscar Wilde
Oh, I love London Society! It is entirely composed now of beautiful idiots and brilliant lunatics. Just what Society should be. By Oscar Wilde
The best one can say of modern creative art is that it is just a little less vulgar than reality. By Oscar Wilde
The hand upon his shoulder weighed like a hand of lead. It was intolerable. It seemed to crush him. By Oscar Wilde
I wrote when I did not know life. Now that I know life, I have no more to write. By Oscar Wilde
Like dear St. Francis of Assisi I am wedded to Poverty: but in my case the marriage is not a success. By Oscar Wilde
An acquaintance that begins with a compliment is sure to develop into a real friendship. It starts in the right manner. By Oscar Wilde
Bigamy is having one wife too many. Monogamy is the same. By Oscar Wilde
The advantage of the emotions is that they lead us astray. By Oscar Wilde
Our proverbs want rewriting. They were made in winter, and it is summer now; spring-time for me, I think, a very dance of blossoms in blue skies. By Oscar Wilde
There is a luxury in self-reproach. By Oscar Wilde
There is a luxury in self-reproach. When we blame ourselves we feel no one else has a right to blame us. By Oscar Wilde
The only form of lying that is absolutely beyond reproach is lying for its own sake. By Oscar Wilde
Love is a more wonderful thing than art.''They are both simply forms of imitation,' remarked Lord Henry. By Oscar Wilde
The moral life of man forms part of the subject matter of the artist, but the morality of art consists in the perfect use of an imperfect medium. By Oscar Wilde
One is sure to be disappointed if one tries to get romance out of modern life. By Oscar Wilde
Dammit Sir, it's your duty to get married. You can't always be living for pleasure! By Oscar Wilde
Young men want to be faithful, and are not. Old men want to be faithless, and cannot. By Oscar Wilde
The man who says his wife can't take a joke, forgets that she took him. By Oscar Wilde
Bigamy ? It's having one wife too much ... ... Monogamy ? It's the same. By Oscar Wilde
He wanted to be where no one would know who he was. He wanted to escape from himself. By Oscar Wilde
I've now realised for the first time in my life the vital Importance of Being Earnest. By Oscar Wilde
Doom that walks always swiftly, because she goes to the shedding of blood By Oscar Wilde
A gentleman never offends unintentionally By Oscar Wilde
Bore: a man who is never unintentionally rude. By Oscar Wilde
A gentleman is one who never hurts anyone's feelings unintentionally. By Oscar Wilde
When they make up their ledger, they balance stupidity by wealth, and vice by hypocrisy. By Oscar Wilde
We live in an age when unnecessary things are our only necessities. By Oscar Wilde
Art is the most intense mode of individualism that the world has known. By Oscar Wilde
Progress in thought is the assertion of individualism against authority. By Oscar Wilde
It takes great courage to see the world in all its tainted glory, and still to love it. And even more courage to see it in the one you love By Oscar Wilde
Sympathy with joy intensifies the sum of sympathy in the world, sympathy with pain does not really diminish the amount of pain. By Oscar Wilde
If only the picture could grow old, and I stay young. For that ... for that, I would give my SOUL for that. By Oscar Wilde
One pale woman all alone,The daylight kissing her wan hair,Loitered beneath the gas lamps' flare,With lips of flame and heart of stone. By Oscar Wilde
You know what a woman's curiosity is. By Oscar Wilde
The British cook, for her iniquities, is a foolish woman who should be turned into a pillar of salt which she never knows how to use. By Oscar Wilde
There's nothing in the world like the devotion of a married woman. It's a thing no married man knows anything about. By Oscar Wilde
You became to me the visible incarnation of that unseen ideal whose memory haunts us artists like an exquisite dream. By Oscar Wilde
Love is easily killed. By Oscar Wilde
Love is easily killed. Oh! how easily love is killed. By Oscar Wilde
The optimist sees the donut, the pessimist sees the hole. By Oscar Wilde
It is because Humanity has never known where it was going that it has been able to find its way. By Oscar Wilde
I have the kiss of Walt Whitman still on my lips By Oscar Wilde
It is a marvel that those red-roseleaf lips of yours should be made no less for the madness of music and song than for the madness of kissing. By Oscar Wilde
If you are going to tell people the truth, you had better make them laugh or they will kill you. By Oscar Wilde
The English have a miraculous power of turning wine into water. By Oscar Wilde
Really, if the lower orders don't set a good example, what on earth is the use of them? By Oscar Wilde
I never play cricket. It requires one to assume such indecent postures. By Oscar Wilde
I don't recognize you - I've changed a lot. By Oscar Wilde
Whenever cannibals are on the brink of starvation, Heaven, in its infinite mercy, sends them a fat missionary. By Oscar Wilde
However, it is always nice to be expected, and not to arrive. By Oscar Wilde
If a woman cannot make her mistakes charming, she is only a female. By Oscar Wilde
If you are not too long, I will wait for you all my life. By Oscar Wilde
A person who, because he has corns himself, always treads on other people's toes. By Oscar Wilde
What consoles one nowadays is not repentance but pleasure. Repentance is quite out of date. By Oscar Wilde
They have been eating muffins. That looks like repentance By Oscar Wilde
When one has never heard a man's name in the course of one's life, it speaks volumes for him; he must be quite respectable. By Oscar Wilde
Of course married life is merely a habit, a bad habit. But then one regrets the loss even of one's worse habits. By Oscar Wilde
Well, I know, of course, how important it is not to keep a business engagement, if one wants to retain any sense of the beauty of life. By Oscar Wilde
The only way to rid yourself of temptation, is to yield to it. By Oscar Wilde
Art is individualism, and individualism is a disturbing and disintegrating force. By Oscar Wilde
He made me see what Life is, and what Death signifies, and why Love is stronger than both. By Oscar Wilde
whose melancholy could be cured only by the spectacle of death, and who had a passion for red blood, as other men have for red wine--the son By Oscar Wilde
It is not the prisoners who need reformation, it is the prisons. By Oscar Wilde
It is awfully hard work doing nothing. However, I don't mind hard work where there is no definite object of any kind. -Algernon By Oscar Wilde
He hasn't an enemy in the world, and none of his friend like him. By Oscar Wilde
Oh, I'm neither. Optimism begins in a broad grin, and Pessimism ends with blue spectacles. Besides, they are both of them merely poses. By Oscar Wilde
I live constantly in the fear of not being misunderstood. By Oscar Wilde
As for omens, there is no such thing as an omen. Destiny does not send us heralds. She is too wise or too cruel for that. By Oscar Wilde
Rugby is a game for barbarians played by gentlemen. Football is a game for gentlemen played by barbarians. By Oscar Wilde
The criminal classes are so close to us that even the policemen can see them. They are so far away from us that only the poet can understand them. By Oscar Wilde
I find I have, and a heart doesn't suit me, Windermere. Somehow it doesn't go with modern dress. It makes one look old. By Oscar Wilde
We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars. By Oscar Wilde
Love is like a war; easy to start but hard to end and you never know where it might take you. By Oscar Wilde
I have invented an invaluable permanent invalid called Bunbury, in order that I may be able to go down into the country whenever I choose. By Oscar Wilde
I am a man of simple pleasures. The best suits me perfectly. By Oscar Wilde
I'm a man of simple tastes. I'm always satisfied with the best. By Oscar Wilde
She was usually in love with somebody, and, as her passion was never returned, she had kept all her illusions. By Oscar Wilde
I adore simple pleasures," said Lord Henry. "They are the last refuge of the complex. But I don't like scenes, except on the stage. By Oscar Wilde
A live unexamined isn't worth living. I will add, A life unlived isn't worth examining. By Oscar Wilde
The binding was of citron-green leather, with a design of gilt trellis-work and dotted pomegranates. By Oscar Wilde
Who are you?" he said."I am the Happy Prince.""Why are you weeping then?" asked the swallow; "you have quite drenched me. By Oscar Wilde
For only blood can wipe out blood, And only tears can heal: And the crimson stain that was of Cain Became Christ's snow-white seal. VI. By Oscar Wilde
Every one is worthy of love, except him who thinks that he is. Love is asacrament that should be taken kneeling. By Oscar Wilde
Love is a sacrament that should be taken kneeling, and Domine non sum dignus should be on the lips and in the hearts of those who receive it. By Oscar Wilde
The basis of action is lack of imagination. It is the last resource of those who know not how to dream. By Oscar Wilde
If a wretched man has a vice, it shows itself in the lines of his mouth, the droop of his eyelids, the moulding of his hands even. Somebody--I By Oscar Wilde
Yes; she is a peacock in everything but beauty," said Lord Henry, By Oscar Wilde
She is a peacock in everything but beauty! By Oscar Wilde
The wind had blown the fog away, and the sky was like a monstrous peacock's tail, starred with myriads of golden eyes. By Oscar Wilde
I didn't say I liked it Harry. I said it fascinated me. There is a great difference. By Oscar Wilde
I can't help detesting my relations. I suppose it comes from the fact that none of us can stand other people having the same faults as ourselves. By Oscar Wilde
Behind the perfection of a man's style, must lie the passion of a man's soul. By Oscar Wilde
There is one thing worse than an absolutely loveless marriage: a marriage in which there is love, but on one side only. By Oscar Wilde
Poor? What does that matter? When poverty creeps in at the door, love flies in through the window. By Oscar Wilde
The aim of love is to love. No more, no less. By Oscar Wilde
The aim of Love is to love: no more, and no less. By Oscar Wilde
I remember your saying once that there is a fatality about good resolutions - that they are always made too late. Mine certainly were. By Oscar Wilde
A man's face is his autobiography. A woman's face is her work of fiction. By Oscar Wilde
All criticism is a form of autobiography By Oscar Wilde
I like Wagner's music better than anybody's. It is so loud that one can talk the whole time without other people hearing what one says. By Oscar Wilde
I asked the question for the best reason possible, for the only reason, indeed, that excuses anyone for asking any question - simple curiosity. By Oscar Wilde
The only way to behave to a woman is to make love to her if she is pretty, and to someone else if she is plain. By Oscar Wilde
The only possible form of exercise is to talk, not to walk. By Oscar Wilde
Irony is wasted on the stupid By Oscar Wilde
There is only one real tragedy in a woman's life. The fact that her past is always her lover, and her future invariably her husband. By Oscar Wilde
A good friend will always stab you in the front. By Oscar Wilde
Yet the roses are not less lovely for all that By Oscar Wilde
What does money matter? Love is more than money. By Oscar Wilde
Finding the meaning of life is easy. Simply get a dictionary, go to the 'L' section, and find the word 'life.' By Oscar Wilde
Then there was a man who said, 'I never knew what real happiness was until I got married; by then it was too late' By Oscar Wilde
But strange that I was not told That the brain can hold In a tiny ivory cell God's heaven and hell. By Oscar Wilde
I like the duchess very much, but I don't love her.""And the duchess loves you very much, but she likes you less, so you are excellently matched. By Oscar Wilde
Looking good and dressing well is a necessity. Having a purpose in life is not. By Oscar Wilde
If you care about what others think, don't become a writer. By Oscar Wilde
A virtuous abstinence from the joys of pederasty comes most easily to those who have no taste for it. By Oscar Wilde
Beauty ... is of the great facts in the world like sunlight, or springtime, or the reflection in dark water of that silver shell we call the moon. By Oscar Wilde
It was always once springtime in my heart. By Oscar Wilde
In fact, he was dressed for the character of 'Jonas the Graveless, or the Corpse-Snatcher of Chertsey Barn,' one of his most remarkable impersonations By Oscar Wilde
A man who pays his bills on time is soon forgotten. By Oscar Wilde
My dear boy, I love hearing my relations abused. It is the only thing that makes me put up with them at all. By Oscar Wilde
Of course, I should have got rid of you. I should have shaken you out of my life as a man shakes from his raiment a thing that has stung him. By Oscar Wilde
Harry spends his days in saying what is incredible, and his evenings in doing what is improbable. Just the sort of life I would like to lead. By Oscar Wilde
Life had suddenly become too hideous a burden for him to bear. The dreadful death of the unlucky beater, shot in the thicket like a wild By Oscar Wilde
I was working on the proof of one of my poems all the morning, and took out a comma. In the afternoon I put it back again. By Oscar Wilde
No man dies for what he knows to be true. Men die for what they want to be true, for what some terror in their hearts tells them is not true. By Oscar Wilde
America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between. By Oscar Wilde
They have been through the fire, and what fire does not destroy, it hardens. She has had experiences. By Oscar Wilde
The only one you need in your life is that person who shows you he needs you in his. By Oscar Wilde
Have I not indeed been living in a dream? And am I not now dying a victim to the horror and the mystery of the wildest of all sublunary visions? By Oscar Wilde
The trouble with the lower classes is that they lack the sense of tragedy given to them by the upper classes. By Oscar Wilde
My writing has gone to bits - like my character. I am simply a self-conscious nerve in pain. By Oscar Wilde
The camera, you know, will never capture you. Photography, in my experience, has the miraculous power of transferring wine into water. By Oscar Wilde
Live! Live the wonderful life that is in you! Let nothing be lost upon you. Be always searching for new sensations. Be afraid of nothing. By Oscar Wilde
How can a woman be expected to be happy with a man who insists on treating her as if she were a perfectly normal human being. By Oscar Wilde
Cecily is the sweetest, dearest, prettiest girl in the whole world. And I don't care twopence about social possibilities. By Oscar Wilde
Inteligence lives longer than beauty. By Oscar Wilde
MRS. ARBUTHNOT. When a man is old enough to do wrong he should be old enough to do right also. LORD By Oscar Wilde
I must confess that most modern mysticism seems to me to be simply a method of imparting useless knowledge in a form that no one can understand By Oscar Wilde
Friendship is far more tragic than love. It lasts longer. By Oscar Wilde
I always like to know everything about my new friends, and nothing about my old ones. By Oscar Wilde
Musical people are so absurdly unreasonable. They always want one to be perfectly dumb at the very moment when one is longing to be absolutely deaf. By Oscar Wilde
Beer, the Bible, and the seven deadly virtues have made our England what she is. By Oscar Wilde
A bishop keeps on saying at the age of eighty what he was told to say at the age of eighteen. By Oscar Wilde
You know I have loved him always.But we are very poor.Who, being loved, is poor? Oh, no one. I hate my riches. They are a burden ... By Oscar Wilde
From the moment I met you, your personality had the most extraordinary influence over me. I was dominated, soul brain and power. By Oscar Wilde
Men know life too early. Women know life too late. That is the difference between men and women. By Oscar Wilde
Oh, I like tedious, practical subjects. What I don't like are tedious, practical people. There is a wide difference. By Oscar Wilde
The youth of the present day are quite monstrous. They have absolutely no respect for dyed hair. By Oscar Wilde
Don't run down dyed hair and painted faces. There is an extraordinary charm in them, sometimes. By Oscar Wilde
The things one feels absolutely certain about are never true. That is the fatality of faith, and the lesson of romance. By Oscar Wilde
The true artist is a man who believes absolutely in himself, because he is absolutely himself. By Oscar Wilde
A bore is someone who deprives you of solitude without providing you with company. By Oscar Wilde
Robert, how could you have sold yourself for money?I did not sell myself for money. I bought success at a great price. That is all. By Oscar Wilde
After a good dinner one can forgive anybody, even one's own relations. By Oscar Wilde
You can have your secret as long as I have your heart[.] By Oscar Wilde
All great ideas are dangerous. By Oscar Wilde
The mimicry of passion is the most intolerable of all poses. By Oscar Wilde
Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation. By Oscar Wilde
as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written, or badly written. That is all. The nineteenth century By Oscar Wilde
We practical men like to see things, not to read about them. By Oscar Wilde
I analyzed you, though you did not adore me. By Oscar Wilde
Ah! The strength of women comes from the fact that psychology cannot explain us. Men can be analyzed, women ... merely adored. By Oscar Wilde
Cultivated leisure is the aim of man. By Oscar Wilde
Those who find beautiful meanings in beautiful things are the cultivated. For these there is hope. By Oscar Wilde
Philosophy teaches us to bear with equanimity the misfortunes of others. By Oscar Wilde
I don't see anybody here to-night whom one could possibly call a serious purpose. By Oscar Wilde
Those who are faithful know only the trivial side of love: it is the faithless who know love's tragedies. By Oscar Wilde
The secret seems to be the only way to become mysterious and wonderful modern life. The commonest thing gets a touch fascinating when done on the sly. By Oscar Wilde
No art ever survived censorship; no art ever will. By Oscar Wilde
If this is the way Queen Victoria treats her prisoners, she doesn't deserve to have any. By Oscar Wilde
Most people live for love and admiration. But it is by love and admiration that we should live. By Oscar Wilde
She said that she would dance with me if I brought her red roses," cried the young Student; "but in all my garden there is no red rose. By Oscar Wilde
Give me a red rose,' she cried, 'and I will sing you my sweetest song. By Oscar Wilde
Now and then it is a joy to have one's table red with wine and roses. By Oscar Wilde
When a love comes to an end, weaklings cry, efficient ones instantly find another love, and the wise already have one in reserve. By Oscar Wilde
Artists, like the Greek gods, are only revealed to one another. By Oscar Wilde
You will always be fond of me. I represent to you all the sins you never had the courage to commit. By Oscar Wilde
One should never trust a woman who tells one her real age. A woman who would tell one that would tell one anything. By Oscar Wilde
By the artificial separation of soul and body men have invented a Realism that is vulgar and an Idealism that is void. By Oscar Wilde
He hadn't a single redeeming vice. By Oscar Wilde
One should absorb the color of life. By Oscar Wilde
One knows so well the popular idea of health: the English country gentleman galloping after a fox - the unspeakable in full pursuit of the unbeatable. By Oscar Wilde
Self-denial is the shining sore on the leprous body of Christianity. By Oscar Wilde
The living always think that gold can make them happy By Oscar Wilde
My desire to live is as intense as ever, and though my heart is broken, hearts are made to be broken: that is why God sends sorrow into the world. By Oscar Wilde
I have also learnt sympathy with suffering. To me, suffering seems now a sacramental thing, that makes those whom it touches holy. By Oscar Wilde
With an evening coat and a white tie, as you told me once, anybody, even a stock-broker, can gain a reputation for being civilized. By Oscar Wilde
I am what I am. There is nothing more to be said. By Oscar Wilde
I cannot repeat an emotion. No one can, except sentimentalists. By Oscar Wilde
An excellent man; he has no enemies; and none of his friends like him. By Oscar Wilde
I could never quite accustom myself to absinthe, but it suits my style so well By Oscar Wilde
To expect the unexpected shows a thoroughly modern intellect. By Oscar Wilde
One of those middle-aged mediocrities so common in London clubs who have no enemies, but are thoroughly disliked by their friends; By Oscar Wilde
Varnishing is the only artistic process with which Royal Academicians are thoroughly familiar. By Oscar Wilde
I am the only person in the world I should like to know thoroughly. By Oscar Wilde
If one listens one may be convinced; and a man who allows himself to be convinced by an argument is a thoroughly unreasonable person By Oscar Wilde
I should fancy, however, that murder is always a mistake. One should never do anything that one cannot talk about after dinner. By Oscar Wilde
I can stand brute force, but brute reason is quite unbearable. There is something unfair about its use. It is hitting below the intellect. By Oscar Wilde
Of course I have played outdoor games. I once played dominoes in an open air cafe in Paris. By Oscar Wilde
I wonder that no criminal has ever pleaded the ugliness of your city as an excuse for his crimes. By Oscar Wilde
I hate vulgar realism in literature. The man who would call a spade a spade should be compelled to use one. By Oscar Wilde
To begin with, I dined there on Monday, and once a week is quite enough to dine with one's own relations. By Oscar Wilde
Everybody who is incapable of learning has taken to teaching. By Oscar Wilde
I love acting. It is so much more real than life. By Oscar Wilde
The best way to enjoy your job is to imagine yourself without one. By Oscar Wilde
They actually succeed in spelling his name right in the newspapers. That in itself is fame, on the continent. By Oscar Wilde
Here are two chairs; let us sit down and see the smart people go by. By Oscar Wilde
I don't write this letter to put bitterness into your heart, but to pluck it out of mine. For my own sake I must forgive you. By Oscar Wilde
How pale the Princess is! Never have I seen her so pale. She is like the shadow of a white rose in a mirror of silver. By Oscar Wilde
A grapefruit is ionly a lemon that saw an oppurtunity and took advantage of it. By Oscar Wilde
I keep a diary in order to enter the wonderful secrets of my life. If I didn't write them down, I should not probably forget all about them. By Oscar Wilde
The one duty we owe to history is to rewrite it. By Oscar Wilde
Of course I need not remind you how fluid a thing thought is with me with us all and of what an evanescent substance are our emotions made. By Oscar Wilde
When a man has once loved a woman he will do anything for her except continue to love her. By Oscar Wilde
Chrysanthemums from gilded argosyUnload their gaudy senseless merchandise. By Oscar Wilde
If you do not love me, say, nonetheless, you do, for on your tongue falsehood for very shame would turn to truth. By Oscar Wilde
that. As long as I live, the personality of Dorian Gray will dominate me. You can't feel what I feel. You change By Oscar Wilde
The ancient historians gave us delightful fiction in the form of fact; the modern novelist presents us with dull facts under the guise of fiction. By Oscar Wilde
The only things that one can use in fiction are the things that one has ceased to use in fact. By Oscar Wilde
In modern life nothing produces such an effect as a good platitude. It makes the whole world kin. By Oscar Wilde
To get into the best society, nowadays, one has either to feed people, amuse people, or shock people - that is all! By Oscar Wilde
If music be the food of love, get me a supersized big mac, chips, two apple pies and a large milkshake. By Oscar Wilde
No," she answered, wondering at the harsh simplicity of life. By Oscar Wilde
I hope you have not been leading a double life, pretending to be wicked and being good all the time. That would be hypocrisy. By Oscar Wilde
Gwendolen, it is a terrible thing for a man to find out suddenly that all his life he has been speaking nothing but the truth. Can you forgive me? By Oscar Wilde
Egotism itself, which is so necessary to a proper sense of human dignity, is entirely the result of indoor life. By Oscar Wilde
It is through art, and through art only, that we can realise our perfection. By Oscar Wilde
Work is the curse of the drinking classes. By Oscar Wilde
I don't want to go to heaven. None of my friends are there. By Oscar Wilde
The salesman knows nothing of what he is selling save that he is charging a great deal too much for it. By Oscar Wilde
Sometimes we can spend years without living at all, and suddenly our whole life is concentrated in a single moment . By Oscar Wilde
One can realise a thing in a single moment, but one loses it in the long hours that follow with leaden feet. By Oscar Wilde
I don't think I shall send it anywhere, he answered, tossing his head back in that odd way that used to make his friends laugh By Oscar Wilde
Between the optimist and the pessimist, the difference is droll. The optimist sees the doughnut; the pessimist the hole! By Oscar Wilde
One must have a heart of stone to read the death of little Nell without laughing. By Oscar Wilde
The most terrible thing about it is not that it breaks one's heart - hearts are made to be broken - but that it turns one's heart to stone. By Oscar Wilde
Pleasures may turn a heart to stone, riches may make it callous, but sorrows cannot break it. Hearts live by being wounded. By Oscar Wilde
God's eternal laws are kind-and break the heart of stone. By Oscar Wilde
An engagement should come on a young girl as a surprise, pleasant or unpleasant as the case may be. By Oscar Wilde
Comfort is the only thing our civilisation can give us. By Oscar Wilde
There is something in that name that seems to inspire absolute confidence. I pity any poor woman whose husband is not called Ernest. By Oscar Wilde
The only thing that can console one for being poor is extravagance. By Oscar Wilde
Who, being loved, is poor? By Oscar Wilde
Everything in moderation, including moderation. By Oscar Wilde
To toil for a hard master is bitter, but to have no master to toil for is more bitter still. By Oscar Wilde
Popularity is the crown of laurel which the world puts on bad art. Whatever is popular is wrong. By Oscar Wilde
I never saw so many well-dressed, well-fed, business-looking Bohemians in my life. By Oscar Wilde
The sky was pure opal now. By Oscar Wilde
Biography lends to death a new terror. By Oscar Wilde
If there is anything more annoying in the world than having people talk about you, it is certainly having no one talk about you. By Oscar Wilde
All sins, except a sin against itself, Love should forgive. All lives, save loveless lives, true Love should pardon. By Oscar Wilde
Morality, like art, means drawing a line someplace. By Oscar Wilde
Every woman is wrong until she cries. By Oscar Wilde
With age comes wisdom, but sometimes age comes alone. By Oscar Wilde
All crime is vulgar, just as all vulgarity is a crime By Oscar Wilde
Details are always vulgar By Oscar Wilde
Women have a much better time than men in this world; there are far more things forbidden to them. By Oscar Wilde
Friendship never forgets. That is the wonderful thing about it. By Oscar Wilde
You are not listening to a word I am saying ... and I am making the most delightful plans for your future. By Oscar Wilde
I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying. By Oscar Wilde
No one wants to see a play called 'Lady Windermere's Fan'. It's going to be called 'Cocks in Frocks II' or I will find another publisher By Oscar Wilde
Lord AUGUSTUS:(looking around) Time to educate yourself, I suppose.DUMBY: No, time to forget all I have learned. That is much more important. By Oscar Wilde
The evolution of man is slow. The injustice of men is great. By Oscar Wilde
The public have an insatiable curiosity to know everything, except what is worth knowing. By Oscar Wilde
A true artist takes no notice whatever of the public. The public are to him non-existent By Oscar Wilde
For an artist to marry his model is as fatal as for a gourmet to marry his cook: the one gets no sittings, and the other gets no dinners. By Oscar Wilde
As yet, Bernard Shaw hasn't become prominent enough to have any enemies, but none of his friends like him. By Oscar Wilde
All bad art is the result of good intentions. By Oscar Wilde
Be not spendthrift of your honesty, But keep it to yourself By Oscar Wilde
Be yourself; everyone else is already taken. By Oscar Wilde
The only way to get rid of tempation is to yeild to it. By Oscar Wilde
Don't feed the trolls; nothing fuels them so much. By Oscar Wilde
I may not agree with you, but I will defend to the death your right to make an ass of yourself. By Oscar Wilde
The birds that were singing in the dew-drenched garden seemed to be telling the flowers about her. By Oscar Wilde
The sick do not ask if the hand that smoothes their pillow is pure, nor the dying care if the lips that touch their brow have known the kiss of sin. By Oscar Wilde
Set in this stormy Northern sea, Queen of these restless fields of tide, England! what shall men say of thee, Before whose feet the worlds divide? By Oscar Wilde
Nothing annoys people so much as not receiving invitations. By Oscar Wilde
Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much. By Oscar Wilde
Oh, don't cough, Ernest. When one is dictating one should speak fluently and not cough. Besides, I don't know how to spell a cough. By Oscar Wilde
Anyone can sympathize with the sufferings of a friend, but it requires a very fine nature to sympathize with a friend's success. By Oscar Wilde
Anybody can sympathise with the sufferings of a friend, but it requires a very fine nature to sympathise with a friend's success. By Oscar Wilde
A critic should be taught to criticise a work of art without making any reference to the personality of the author. By Oscar Wilde
If art is to have a special train, the critic must keep some seats reserved on it. By Oscar Wilde
Please, tell me the truth.The truth, who knows the truth?You've heart knows the truth. By Oscar Wilde
Come, I tell you. You have chattered enough about corruption. Now you shall look on it face to face! By Oscar Wilde
By giving us the opinions of the uneducated, journalism keeps us in touch with the ignorance of the community. By Oscar Wilde
Ever since I met you I have admired you more than any girl ... I have ever met since ... I met you. By Oscar Wilde
When poverty creeps in at the door, love flies through the window. By Oscar Wilde
He would stab his best friend for the sake of writing an epigraph on his tombstone. By Oscar Wilde
The man with a clear conscience probably has a poor memory. By Oscar Wilde
The English public always feels perfectly at ease when a mediocrity is talking to it. By Oscar Wilde
No, as far as I am concerned, let your wife cherish the memory of this dead, stainless mother. Why should I interfere with her illusions? By Oscar Wilde
Love - well, not love at first sight, but love at the end of the season, which is so much more satisfactory. By Oscar Wilde
If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all. By Oscar Wilde
What you read when you don't have to ... By Oscar Wilde
If a book isn't worth reading over and over again, it isn't worth reading at all. By Oscar Wilde
The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame. By Oscar Wilde
I am too fond of reading books to care to write them. By Oscar Wilde
It is what you read when you don't have to that determines what you will be when you can't help it. By Oscar Wilde
Out of the black cave of time, terrible and swathed in scarlet, rose the image of his sin. By Oscar Wilde
On an occasion of this kind it becomes more than a moral duty to speak one's mind. It becomes a pleasure. By Oscar Wilde
I am afraid it is quite clear, Cecily, that neither of us is engaged to be married to any one. By Oscar Wilde
A man can be happy with any woman, as long as he does not love her. By Oscar Wilde
If a woman wants to hold a man she has merely to appeal to what is worst in him. By Oscar Wilde
And if life be, as it surely is, a problem to me, I am no less a problem to life. By Oscar Wilde
How marriage ruins a man! It is as demoralizing as cigarettes, and far more expensive. By Oscar Wilde
Gwendolen. How absurd to talk of the equality of the sexes! Where questions of self-sacrifice are concerned, men are infinitely beyond us. By Oscar Wilde
Come, dear, [Gwendolen rises] we have already missed five, if not six, trains. To miss any more might expose us to comment on the platform. By Oscar Wilde
My dear fellow, the way you flirt with Gwendolen is perfectly disgraceful. It is almost as disgraceful as the way Gwendolen flirts with you. By Oscar Wilde
Have some bread and butter. The breadand butter is for Gwendolen. Gwendolen is devoted to bread andbutter. By Oscar Wilde
Only the great masters of style ever succeed in being obscure. By Oscar Wilde
To elope is cowardly; it is running away from danger, and danger hasbecome so rare in modern life. By Oscar Wilde
The world has cried out against us both, but it has always worshipped you. By Oscar Wilde
I'll back English women against the world, Harry," said Lord Fermor, striking the table with his fist. "The betting is on By Oscar Wilde
It can never be necessary to do what is not honourable. By Oscar Wilde
I quite agree with Dr. Nordau's assertion that all men of genius are insane, but Dr. Nordau forgets that all sane people are idiots. By Oscar Wilde
And once, or twice, to throw the dice is a gentlemanly game, But he does not win who plays with Sin in the secret house of shame By Oscar Wilde
I treated Art as the supreme reality and life as a mere mode of fiction. By Oscar Wilde
Sins of the flesh are nothing. They are maladies for physicians to cure, if they should be cured. Sins of the soul alone are shameful. By Oscar Wilde
You like every one; that is to say, you are indifferent to every one. By Oscar Wilde
Life is one fool thing after another whereas love is two fool things after each other. By Oscar Wilde
I am not sorry for anything that has happened. It has taught me to know myself better. By Oscar Wilde
There was a look of fear in his eyes, such as people have when they are suddenly awakened. By Oscar Wilde
It's not hard to get the ideas when they come. They just come ... it's painful waiting for them. By Oscar Wilde
As the door closed behind them, the painter flung himself down on a sofa, and a look of pain came into his face. By Oscar Wilde
The Noblest form of Affection By Oscar Wilde
I will love you always, because you will always be worthy of love. By Oscar Wilde
We have quite the same ideas. No; I think our ideas are quite different. But he has been most pleasant. By Oscar Wilde
I may have said the same thing before ... but my explanation, I am sure, will always be different. By Oscar Wilde
you poisoned me with a book once. I should not forgive that. Harry, promise me that you will never lend that book to any one. It does harm. By Oscar Wilde
You and I will always be friends.""Yet you poisoned me with a book once. I should not forgive that. By Oscar Wilde
An artist should create beautiful things, but should put nothing of his own life into them. By Oscar Wilde
We are talking about poor Dartmoor, Lord Henry, cried the duchess, nodding pleasantly By Oscar Wilde
What are American dry-goods? asked the duchess, raising her large hands in wonder and accentuating the verb.American novels, answered Lord Henry. By Oscar Wilde
For you I would throw over anybody, Duchess, said Lord Henry, with a bow. By Oscar Wilde
The generation into which I was born was tedious. By Oscar Wilde
He is fairer than the morning star, and whiter than the moon. For his body I would give my soul, and for his love I would surrender heaven. By Oscar Wilde
I have never admitted that I am more than twenty-nine, or thirty at the most. Twenty-nine when there are pink shades, thirty when there are not. By Oscar Wilde
A man who takes himself too seriously will find that no one else takes him seriously. By Oscar Wilde
A work of art is the unique result of a unique temperament. By Oscar Wilde
Women's styles may change but their designs remain the same. By Oscar Wilde
Ruin followed, like the echo of a bitter cry, or the shadow that hunts with the beast of prey. By Oscar Wilde
If God really wanted to punish, he'd answer all our prayers. By Oscar Wilde
If God wished to punish us, all he would need to do would be to answer our prayers. By Oscar Wilde
Hear no evil, speak no evil, and you won't be invited to cocktail parties. By Oscar Wilde
Hear no evil, speak no evil, and you'll never be invited to a party. By Oscar Wilde
I always pass on good advice. It is the only thing to do with it. It is never of any use to oneself. By Oscar Wilde
The only thing to do with good advice is to pass it on. It is never of any use to oneself. By Oscar Wilde
The ugly can be beautiful. The pretty, never. By Oscar Wilde
A woman will flirt with anybody in the world as long as other people are looking on. By Oscar Wilde
My own personality has become a burden to me. I want to escape, to go away, to forget. By Oscar Wilde
The only difference between saints and sinners is that every saint has a past while every sinner has a future. By Oscar Wilde
The Roman Catholic Church is for saints and sinners alone - for respectable people, the Anglican Church will do. By Oscar Wilde
Actual life was chaos, but there was something terribly logical in the imagination. By Oscar Wilde
There must be no mood with which one cannot sympathise, no dead mode of life that one cannot make alive. Is this impossible? I think not. By Oscar Wilde
The bond of all companionship, whether in marriage or in friendship, is conversation By Oscar Wilde
Life cheats us with shadows. We ask it for pleasure. It gives it to us with bitterness and disappointment in its train. By Oscar Wilde
Wisdom comes with winters By Oscar Wilde
Ah! somehow life is bigger after allThan any painted angel could we seeThe God that is within us! By Oscar Wilde
In the cave of black Despair: He only looked upon the sun, And drank the morning air. By Oscar Wilde
London is full of women who trust their husbands. One can always recognize them. They look so thoroughly unhappy. By Oscar Wilde
Children begin by loving their parents; after a time they judge them; rarely, if ever, do they forgive them. By Oscar Wilde
Poets know how useful passion is for publication. Nowadays a broken heart will run to many editions. By Oscar Wilde
The artist paints the face and body of the sitter, but in fact he shows his own feelings. By Oscar Wilde
Woman begins by resisting a man's advances and ends by blocking his retreat. By Oscar Wilde
And when wind and winter hardenAll the loveless land,It will whisper of the garden,You will understand. By Oscar Wilde
His style is chaos illumined by flashes of lightning. As a writer he has mastered everything except language. By Oscar Wilde
Genius learns from nature, its own nature. Talent learns from art. By Oscar Wilde
The best revenge is to live well. By Oscar Wilde
I talk so trivially about life because I think that life is far too important a thing ever to talk seriously about it. By Oscar Wilde
Against these turbid turquoise skiesThe light and luminous blloonsDip and drift like satin moons,Drift like silken butterflies By Oscar Wilde
She is very clever, too clever for a woman. She lacks the indefinable charm of weakness. By Oscar Wilde
When I like people immensely I never tell their names to anyone. It is like surrendering a part of them. I have grown to love secrecy. By Oscar Wilde
Always here in summer when we want something to chill our intelligence. Don't flatter yourself, By Oscar Wilde
It was the passions about whose origin we deceived ourselves that tyrannized most strongly over us. By Oscar Wilde
Out of the unreal shadows of the night comes back the real life that we had known By Oscar Wilde
For the canons of good society are, or should be, the same as the canons of art. Form is absolutely essential to it. By Oscar Wilde
Love! What is love? It's nothing. It's just a word. It doesn't exist. Only pleasure is important. By Oscar Wilde
What art seeks to disturb is monotony of type, slavery of custom, tyranny of habit, and the reduction of man to the level of a machine. By Oscar Wilde
He thinks like a Tory, and talks like a Radical, and that's so important nowadays. By Oscar Wilde
I have said to you to speak the truth is a painful thing. To be forced to tell lies is much worse. By Oscar Wilde
Plain women are always jealous of their husbands. Beautiful women never are. They are always so occupied with being jealous of other women's husbands. By Oscar Wilde
The only thing worse than being misquoted is being sentenced to two years' hard labour for buggery By Oscar Wilde
Ordinary riches can be stolen; real riches cannot. In your soul are infinitely precious things that cannot be taken from you. By Oscar Wilde
Never love anybody who treats you like you're ordinary. By Oscar Wilde
Never love anyone who treats you like you're ordinary. By Oscar Wilde
Work is the refuge of people who have nothing better to do. By Oscar Wilde
Education is very admirable but let us not forget that anything worth knowing cannot be taught. By Oscar Wilde
Anything becomes a pleasure if one does it too often, By Oscar Wilde
All trials are trials for one's life, just as all sentences are sentences of death. By Oscar Wilde
You are young. No hungry generations tread you down. The past does not mock you with the ruins of a beauty the secret of whose creation you have lost By Oscar Wilde
I suppose society is wonderfully delightful. To be in it is merely a bore. But to be out of it is simply a tragedy. By Oscar Wilde
She is very lovely, and if she knows as little about life as she does about acting, she will be a delightful experience. By Oscar Wilde
In literature mere egotism is delightful. By Oscar Wilde
I wonder who it was defined man as a rational animal. It was the most premature definition ever given. Man is many things, but he is not rational. By Oscar Wilde
Leave us some unreality. Do not make us too offensively sane. By Oscar Wilde
I had a strange feeling that Fate had in store for me exquisite joys and exquisite sorrows. By Oscar Wilde
Well, she wore far too much rouge last night, and not quite enough clothes. That is always a sign of desperation in a woman. By Oscar Wilde
Out of the unreal shadows of night comes back the real life that we had known. We have to resume it where we had left off ... p 207 By Oscar Wilde
Political life at Washington is like political life in a suburban vestry. By Oscar Wilde
One cannot always keep an adder in one's breast to feed one, nor rise up every night to sow thorns in the garden of one's soul. By Oscar Wilde
In England it is enough for a man to try and produce any serious, beautiful work to lose all his rights as a citizen. By Oscar Wilde
Thought and language are to the artist instruments of an art. Vice and virtue are to the artist materials for an art. By Oscar Wilde
All bad poetry springs from genuine feeling. To be natural is to be obvious, and to be obvious is to be inartistic. By Oscar Wilde
There are times when sorrow seems to me to be the only truth. By Oscar Wilde
We Irish are too poetical to be poets; we are a nation of brilliant failures, but we are the greatest talkers since the Greeks. By Oscar Wilde
If one could only teach the English how to talk, and the Irish how to listen, society here would be quite civilized. By Oscar Wilde
True friends stab you from the front. By Oscar Wilde
Reported as Oscar Wilde's last words on his death bed ... This wallpaper is killing me. One of us has to go. By Oscar Wilde
My wallpaper and I are fighting a duel to the death. One or the other of us has to go. By Oscar Wilde
When we are happy, we are always good, but when we are good, we are not always happy. By Oscar Wilde
One sometime feels that it is only with a front of brass and a lip of scorn that one can get through the day at all. By Oscar Wilde
Learn to differentiate between ignorance and stupidity. By Oscar Wilde
Lord Illingworth told me this morning that there was an orchid there as beautiful as the seven deadly sins. By Oscar Wilde
But there is no such thing, sir, as a ghost, and I guess the laws of Nature are not going to be suspended for the British aristocracy By Oscar Wilde
The is nothing that art cannot express By Oscar Wilde
And now, I am dying beyond my means. (Said while sipping champagne on his deathbed.) By Oscar Wilde
When bankers get together for dinner, they discuss Art. When artists get together for dinner, they discuss Money By Oscar Wilde
I tried to visit Albania but I couldn't find it on the map. By Oscar Wilde
The world is divided into two classes, those who believe the incredible, and those who do the improbable. By Oscar Wilde
Now produce your explanation and pray make it improbable. By Oscar Wilde
Man can believe the impossible, but man can never believe the improbable. By Oscar Wilde
The soul is born old but grows young. That is the comedy of life. By Oscar Wilde
I never approve, or disapprove, of anything now. It is an absurd attitude to take towards life. By Oscar Wilde
And the marvellous rose became crimson, like the rose of the eastern sky. Crimson was the girdle of petals, and crimson as a ruby was the heart By Oscar Wilde
A well-tied tie is the first serious step in life. By Oscar Wilde
Oh, no doubt the cod is a splendid swimmer - admirable for swimming purposes but not for eating. By Oscar Wilde
There was purification in punishment. Not 'Forgive us our sins,' but 'Smite us for our iniquities' should be the prayer of a man to a most just God. By Oscar Wilde
But I loved Narcissus because as he lay on my banks and looked down at me, in the mirror of his eyes I saw ever my own beauty mirrored. By Oscar Wilde
We are the zanies of sorrow. We are clowns whose hearts are broken. By Oscar Wilde
Nothing is good in moderation. You cannot know good in anything until you have torn the heart out of it by excess. By Oscar Wilde
All excess, as well as renunciation, brings its own punishment. By Oscar Wilde
Everyone is born a king; some people die in exile By Oscar Wilde
I don't know that women are always rewarded for being charming. I think they are usually punished for it! By Oscar Wilde
Hello, I am Oscar Wilde By Oscar Wilde
The condition of perfection is idleness: the aim of perfection is youth. By Oscar Wilde
The visible aspect of modern life disturbs him not; rather is it for him to render eternal all that is beautiful in Greek, Italian, and Celtic legend. By Oscar Wilde
Everything in the world is about sex except sex. Sex is about power. By Oscar Wilde
An alliterative prefix served as an ornament of oratory. By Oscar Wilde
You seem to be displaying signs of triviality. By Oscar Wilde
Wordsworth went to the Lakes, but he was never a lake poet. He found in stones the sermons he had already hidden there. By Oscar Wilde
A really well-made buttonhole is the only link between Art and Nature. By Oscar Wilde
It is personalities, not principles, that move the age By Oscar Wilde
No woman should ever be quite accurate about her age. It looks so calculating. By Oscar Wilde
A mouse ran scuffling behind the wainscoting. There By Oscar Wilde
When you are not on your pedestal you are not interesting. By Oscar Wilde
When the gods wish to punish us they answer our prayers. By Oscar Wilde
Life is short, art is infinite. By Oscar Wilde
youth is the one thing worth having. By Oscar Wilde
Sometimes it takes courage to give into temptation. By Oscar Wilde
Describe us as a sex," was her challenge. "Sphinxes without secrets. By Oscar Wilde
Disobedience is man's original virtue. By Oscar Wilde
A publisher is simply a useful middle-man. By Oscar Wilde
I do not approve of anything which tampers with natural ignorance By Oscar Wilde
She was free in her prison of passion. By Oscar Wilde
The portrait was to bear the burden of his shame: that was all. By Oscar Wilde
And, green or dry, a man must die Before it bears its fruit! By Oscar Wilde
Absolute catholicity of taste is not without its dangers. It is only an auctioneer who should admire all schools of art. By Oscar Wilde
I suppose one must be serious sometimes. By Oscar Wilde
Your cynicism is simply a pose. By Oscar Wilde
The world belongs to the discontented. By Oscar Wilde
It is so easy to convince others; it is so difficult to convince oneself. By Oscar Wilde
The only way to atone for being occasionally a little over-dressed is by being always absolutely over-educated. By Oscar Wilde
I think after Christmas would be better for publication: I am hardly a Christmas present. By Oscar Wilde
As for begging, it is safer to beg than to take, but it is finer to take than to beg By Oscar Wilde
I don't desire to change anything in England except the weather, I am quite content with philosophical contemplation. By Oscar Wilde
And at my feet the pale green ThamesLies like a rod of rippled jade. By Oscar Wilde
Time is jealous of you, and wars against your lilies and your roses. By Oscar Wilde
If one tells the truth, one is sure, sooner or later, to be found out. By Oscar Wilde
Twenty years of romance make a woman look like a ruin; but twenty years of marriage make her something like a public building. By Oscar Wilde
Selfishness is not living your life as you wish to live it. Selfishness is wanting others to live their lives as you wish them to. By Oscar Wilde
ravelled skeins of glossy white silk, were drifting across the hollowed turquoise of the summer sky. By Oscar Wilde
The old-fashioned respect for the young is fast dying out. By Oscar Wilde
Genius lasts longer than Beauty. That accounts for the fact that we all take such pains to over-educate ourselves. By Oscar Wilde
In old days books were written by men of letters and read by the public. Nowadays books are written by the public and read by nobody. By Oscar Wilde
Never mind what I say, Robert! I am always saying what I shouldn't say. In fact, I usually say what I really think. A great mistake nowadays. By Oscar Wilde
Whatever, in fact, is modern in our life we owe to the Greeks. Whatever is an anachronism is due to mediaevalism. By Oscar Wilde
Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead. By Oscar Wilde
I'm so smart, I read and understand Hegel By Oscar Wilde
One should never give a woman anything she can't wear in the evening. By Oscar Wilde
We are never more true to ourselves than when we are inconsistent. By Oscar Wilde
You fancy you to be! He By Oscar Wilde
Marriage is the one subject on which all women agree and all men disagree. By Oscar Wilde
Punctuality is the thief of time By Oscar Wilde
I am always late on principle, my principle being that punctuality is the thief of time. By Oscar Wilde
The well bred contradict other people. The wise contradict themselves. By Oscar Wilde
I think you are wrong, Basil, but I won't argue with you. It is only the intellectually lost who ever argue. By Oscar Wilde
I find him in the curves of certain lines, in the loveliness and subtleties of certain colours. By Oscar Wilde
I am always astonishing myself. It is the only thing that makes life worth living. By Oscar Wilde
Mourning the old glad days before they knewWhat evil things the heart of man could dream, and dreaming do. By Oscar Wilde
Too much of yourself in it! Upon my word, Basil, I didn't know you were so vain; and I really can't see any resemblance between you, By Oscar Wilde
Art finds her own perfection within, and not outside of, herself.She is not to be judged by any external standard of resemblance. By Oscar Wilde
My philosophy? I'm always right and you are wrong. By Oscar Wilde
There is no feeling more comforting and consoling than knowing you are right next to the one you love. By Oscar Wilde
Greek dress was in its essence inartistic. Nothing should reveal the body but the body. By Oscar Wilde
Philosophies fall away like sand, and creeds follow on another like the withered leaves of Autumn. By Oscar Wilde
Gray's soul had turned to this white girl and bowed in worship before her. To a large extent the lad was his By Oscar Wilde
I would merely beg you not to be too much bowed down by grief. What seem to us bitter trails are often blessings in disguise. By Oscar Wilde
Every impulse that we strive to strangle broods in the mind and poisons us. By Oscar Wilde
A subject that is beautiful in itself gives no suggestion to the artist. It lacks imperfection. By Oscar Wilde
Colonel. Can she read and write? Peter. Ay, that she can, sir. Colonel. Then she is a dangerous woman. By Oscar Wilde
Besides, every experience is of value, and whatever one may say against marriage, it is certainly an experience. By Oscar Wilde
Everyone should keep someone else's diary. By Oscar Wilde
An ex-tragedy queen named Miss Glynn, who, having no visible external ears, reared a head like a turnip. By Oscar Wilde
The suspense is terrible. I hope it will last. By Oscar Wilde
Reforms in Russia are very tragic, but they always end in a farce. By Oscar Wilde
I left her in the forest of Arden; I shall find her in an orchard in Verona. By Oscar Wilde
It would be more impressive if it flowed the other way (Commenting on Niagara Falls) By Oscar Wilde
The proper aim is to try and reconstruct society on such a basis that poverty will be impossible. By Oscar Wilde
But Venice, like Oxford, had kept the background for romance, and, to the true romantic, background was everything, or almost everything. By Oscar Wilde