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“Oh! I don't think I would like to catch a sensible man. I shouldn't know what to talk to him about.”

Oscar Wilde The Importance of Being Earnest

Source: The Importance of Being Earnest

“Art is the most intense mode of individualism that the world has known.”

Oscar Wilde book The Soul of Man under Socialism

Source: The Soul of Man Under Socialism

“Actions are the first tragedy in life, words are the second. Words are perhaps the worst. Words are merciless…”

Oscar Wilde

Source: Lady Windermere's Fan / A Woman of No Importance / An Ideal Husband / The Importance of Being Earnest / Salomé

“Women defend themselves by attacking, just as they attack by sudden and strange surrenders.”

Oscar Wilde book The Picture of Dorian Gray

Source: The Picture of Dorian Gray

“One's real life is so often the life that one does not lead.”

Oscar Wilde

“Its a beautiful woman's fate to be the subject of conversation where ever she goes”

Oscar Wilde book The Picture of Dorian Gray

Source: The Picture of Dorian Gray

“Moderation is a fatal thing, Lady Hunstanton. Nothing succeeds like excess.”

Oscar Wilde A Woman of No Importance

Lord Illingworth, Act III
A Woman of No Importance (1893)

“The only way a woman can ever reform a man is by boring him so completely that he loses all possible interest in life.”

Oscar Wilde

“When good Americans die, they go to Paris.”

Oscar Wilde

“Bigamy is having one wife too many. Monogamy is the same.”

Oscar Wilde

“Women love us for our defects. If we have enough of them, they will forgive us everything, even our intellects.”

Oscar Wilde book The Picture of Dorian Gray

Source: The Picture of Dorian Gray

“The only people I would care to be with now are artists and people who have suffered: those who know what beauty is, and those who know what sorrow is: nobody else interests me.”

Oscar Wilde book De Profundis

Source: De Profundis

“Oh, brothers! I don't care for brothers. My elder brother won't die, and my younger brothers seem never to do anything else.”

Oscar Wilde book The Picture of Dorian Gray

Source: The Picture of Dorian Gray

“My life-my whole life- take it, and do with it what you will. I love you-love you as I have never loved any living thing. From the moment I met you I loved you, loved you blindly, adoringly, madly!

You didn't know it then-you know it now.”

Oscar Wilde Lady Windermere's Fan

Source: Lady Windermere's Fan

“I beg your pardon I didn't recognise you - I've changed a lot.”

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.”

Oscar Wilde

Source: The Picture of Dorian Gray and Other Writings

“Yet each man kills the thing he loves
By each let this be heard,
Some do it with a bitter look,
Some with a flattering word,
The coward does it with a kiss,
The brave man with a sword!”

Oscar Wilde book The Ballad of Reading Gaol

Pt. I, st. 7.
The Ballad of Reading Gaol (1898)
Source: The Ballad Of Reading Gaol